“Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.” (William Wundt) A majority of people believe that psychology is not a science. However, Merriam Webster defines psychology as, “the science or study of the mind and behavior”. In agreement with Merriam Webster, psychology should be considered a field of science due to the fact that it uses scientific reasoning to come up with theories, collect huge amounts of data, and relies on physiology to study human reasoning.
In addition, all sciences have a foundation of empiricism. Empiricism is the idea that all knowledge is based on sense-experience and which is a fundamental requirement of scientific methods that all hypotheses and theories must rely on. Empiricism is "the premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation" (Weiten, 2001, p.22) Psychology is empirical in the sense that psychologists have to remain objective and experiment methodically. The quote lays a premise which the scientific field of psychology fits into. Since psychology, like other sciences, follow the theory of empiricism it should be a considered a science. …show more content…
Many people might disagree with this, but they need to remember that most things in science are not proven. Science is basically a collection of theories that help us better understand the world. Einstein’s theory of general relativity cannot be proven for sure, but we take it as a fact. Psychology is also a group of theories that psychologists put together after their own studies of the human mind. It cannot be proven for sure like many other science theories, but it is always open to be disproved as time goes on and technology advances. Psychology has a lot of scientific reasoning behind it and should ,therefore be acknowledged by the scientific
In addition, all sciences have a foundation of empiricism. Empiricism is the idea that all knowledge is based on sense-experience and which is a fundamental requirement of scientific methods that all hypotheses and theories must rely on. Empiricism is "the premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation" (Weiten, 2001, p.22) Psychology is empirical in the sense that psychologists have to remain objective and experiment methodically. The quote lays a premise which the scientific field of psychology fits into. Since psychology, like other sciences, follow the theory of empiricism it should be a considered a science. …show more content…
Many people might disagree with this, but they need to remember that most things in science are not proven. Science is basically a collection of theories that help us better understand the world. Einstein’s theory of general relativity cannot be proven for sure, but we take it as a fact. Psychology is also a group of theories that psychologists put together after their own studies of the human mind. It cannot be proven for sure like many other science theories, but it is always open to be disproved as time goes on and technology advances. Psychology has a lot of scientific reasoning behind it and should ,therefore be acknowledged by the scientific