Is psychology a science? (Page 13) Nicorrette: work can drive u crazy ,I agree,on both regims,totaliarian and democrat!its certificatd by history!  (Post deleted by staff )  GinnyTx: Ok it's an "ology" a study of..and ONGOING work. Oh we have all our favorites, Nurses adopt Eriksonian psychology. Now studying the laws is an entirely diffent thing once you put a HUMAN into it..we do not even know what parts of the brain do still. its an evolving science and should be treated as such. One great thing I've seen in my lifetime is at UTHSC houston, neuro, donating my brain to them when I die. They've unlocked soooo much the very fundamentals of why we are what and who we are..and thank God..:"Born this way" and well I was thrown into a ice bath in the 5th grade w/pneumonia, and carry COPD, do not have it..no pink puffer..but born with the gene and we can unlock those, now and learning so much more as to why instead of trying to change what we are!!(or to manage/prevent a future medical conditon) but the personality traits are genetic and environmental and honstestly we do not know yet and would be a fool to fall on my science w/o my humanit, hence the BS inthe beginning of the post as we "know" that to be true..but we're learning the unknown so fast now it's ever changing!!  Dennae: Good God I hope so othewise I have just wasted 5 years at university and .... Oh my ... all those statistical classes I had to sit through   bright_light101: to answer the question of is psychology i science, i would definitely say that it is. Just a different form of sciece; there is immense hypothesis testing, working with data, and basic neurobiology involved CoIin: ^^ Well, here we see the same problem of demarcation all over again. If we take your three criteria above as necessary conditions for a "science", then what happens? What happens is that most of what we currently consider to be good science gets excluded - physics, for example, does not involve neurobiology. If we take your three criteria to be individually sufficient conditions (i.e. anything that "works with data" is a science, etc) then astrology and other ugly beasts get included. I think we have to settle for what Wittgenstein called a "family resemblence". | Science Chat Room 1 Person Chatting Similar Conversations |
