Why psychology is considered to be a scientific discipline?

Answer 1

Psychology is considered a science because, in all actuality, it fits the criterion.

According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, science is "knowledge attained through study or practice," or "knowledge covering general truths of the operation of general laws, esp. as obtained and tested through scientific method [and] concerned with the physical world."

Psychology often uses experiments and observation to discover correlations and relationships between two variables, it seeks to explain phenomenon via the scientific method of discovery and analysis, and it is advancing human society in medicine, commercial applications, and personal comfort and convenience. There's no real reason to say it isn't except that it is a very hard science to conduct. however, I must remind you that at one point, all Mendel had was a bunch of plants he grew, and he did "science," so psychology must be one as well.
Because it is an art of identifying a person's state of mind, if he is in a proper or normal thinking or not.It also includes the quantity of mind, which generally is the main reason of studying science.
Because we can test our hypotheses experimentally.

Answer 2

Some people think psychology is a jumble of caged rats and statistics, but others maintain that it is susceptible to the scientific method, and thus it must be a scientific study. But if psychology is scientific, it is softly, oh so softly so. Unlike physics or chemistry, whose scientists may make highly detailed, exactly accurate predictions, psychology is capable only of predicting some of the behavior of some kinds of semi-conscious people some of the time. That makes it useful for tyranny, for marketing and advertising, and for knowing where to put a speed trap, which is to say that all in all the practice of psychology probably does more harm to people than good.

Answer 3

Psychology is a science because it contains testable hypotheses about the nature of the mind. Its primary emphasis is on the Biology on the brain and the way this biology shapes subjective experiences and typically relies on the administration of chemicals (ie anti-depressants) to change the brain's chemistry. Psychiatry is the art.

Answer 4

No. Psychology is a science, if not an exact one. It is about learning how the human psyche functions, while art is an expression of the human psyche.

Answer 5

psychologists uncover the causes of events by systematically collecting empirical evidence

Answer 6

Its like dissecting your brain without cutting it open. So it is basically the study of the brain

Answer 7

Because it values evidence over tradition and opinion.

Answer 8

I believe it is called a soft science, which is different from the hard sciences; physics, geology, biology, etc.