PSYC 005 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pseudoscience, Public Knowledge, Empiricism
12 Jan 2017
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It is hard for people to believe that psychology is a science, because they only see biology, chemistry, and astronomy as science. Many wondered how they all connect through science. For example, biologist will study living organism, chemist will study molecules, and astronomer will study celestial bodies. With the information given, the philosopher and scientist had come up with the idea that they all connect due to understanding the natural world. The reason that psychology is a science is because it is needed for the approach of understanding the natural world, which is human behavior. The general scientific approach has three fundamental features (stanovich, 2010). (1) semantic empiricism: this means that scientist learn by observing about the natural world systematically using skills, such as planning, making, recording, and analyzing. An example of semantic empiricism is when mehl and his colleagues had done a systematic observation based on if women talk more than men.
