PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Psychologies, Psychopathy, Peer Pressure
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It"s all about the lack of testable theories . For scientists it is do you have a theory that leads to predictions we can test. But still a very heavy importance in the scientific aspect. Suggested a very different kind of psychology. Psychologists in freud"s time would see patients, were philosophers of a different kind, the patients presented evidence, would think about the evidence, come up with theories, and treat them based on the theories. These theories were more science fiction than science. No it cannot be tested freud would say . I"m on the right track, when i treat my clients they tell me they feel better, making my patient better . But some claim that anyone would say yes because they feel stupid saying no its not working . Science and religion, where religion is a bunch of theories. Not in religion lend itself to scientific investigation.
