Scientific status of psychology

  • Replicability
  • Reliability
  • Validity
  • Reductionism
  • Falsification
  • Empiricism
  • Hypothesis testing
  • The use of controls

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Assessment Questions:

  1. State one factor that would make a psychological study scientific. (1)
  2. Explain whether Pavlov’s (1927) experiment with salivation in dogs could be considered scientific. (4)