Science is defined as the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. If we took the time and broke down this one definition of science we would see that it talks about behavior in a physical and natural world through observation and experiment just as when we are taught about psychology we learn experiments have been done to test theories. Psychology is defined as the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context. Right there in the definition is the word scientific so I believe that right there is proof enough that psychology is a science. Through many
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Psychology is a fairly new science, most advances happening in the past 150 years. However, some things can be tracked all the way back to ancient Greece (OOOOOOOO.) Psychologists conduct basic and applied research with everything they do when analyzing the brain and behaviors. When I personally think of psychology I relate it to my personal life and how my counselor and I work through things in my life and it is clear her knowledge comes from research and things she has learned. Some of the things she has learned were studied and tested before she was even born. I know that when she would prescribe medicine to me it was never just a guess off her opinion but instead based on how each medicine affects different chemicals in your brain. Her treatment was based off of knowledge and science. There is so much science in the aspect of how chemicals in our brain become unbalanced and that is how depression, anxiety and such things become an issue. It was stressed to me so often when I was diagnosed with depression that nothing was wrong with me as a person but that it is a chemical unbalance in my brain. From personal experience I will stand by the fact that psychology is a science because the science and studies over the years is what has helped me become the more healthy person I am today …show more content…
I believe that with how much research has to be done to prove all these aspects of psychology that there in no way that psychology is not a science. For centuries people have worked to improve psychology using science and testing hypothesises. I would say they have been successful because evidence is shown by how far things have come since way back
Psychology is a fairly new science, most advances happening in the past 150 years. However, some things can be tracked all the way back to ancient Greece (OOOOOOOO.) Psychologists conduct basic and applied research with everything they do when analyzing the brain and behaviors. When I personally think of psychology I relate it to my personal life and how my counselor and I work through things in my life and it is clear her knowledge comes from research and things she has learned. Some of the things she has learned were studied and tested before she was even born. I know that when she would prescribe medicine to me it was never just a guess off her opinion but instead based on how each medicine affects different chemicals in your brain. Her treatment was based off of knowledge and science. There is so much science in the aspect of how chemicals in our brain become unbalanced and that is how depression, anxiety and such things become an issue. It was stressed to me so often when I was diagnosed with depression that nothing was wrong with me as a person but that it is a chemical unbalance in my brain. From personal experience I will stand by the fact that psychology is a science because the science and studies over the years is what has helped me become the more healthy person I am today …show more content…
I believe that with how much research has to be done to prove all these aspects of psychology that there in no way that psychology is not a science. For centuries people have worked to improve psychology using science and testing hypothesises. I would say they have been successful because evidence is shown by how far things have come since way back