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In psychology a positivist approach is favoured by behaviourism and dominated the field during the rise of it. Methodology: focused on specific ways, the methods we can use to try to understand our world better. Epistemology: knowledge, philosophy of knowledge, the former involves philosophy of how we come to know the world and the latter involves the practice. Empiricism ( theory of knowledge ): theory of knowledge which asserts knowledge arises from experience emphasize the role of experience and evidence. Feminist empiricism: which sees andocentric s science as bad science. Feminist standpoint: takes various positions, including radical and socialist.