Scientific debate

• Psychology meaning 


  Scientific study of mind and behavior
• why do most psychologists believe it is a science subject

  • evidence based research
  • fact based reporting
• what institute did Wundt open

  institute for experimental psychology
• introspection meaning 


  conscious examination of one’s own thoughts and feelings
• reductionism meaning 


  theory that everything can be reduced to simple cause and effect relationships
• what are the several common features and principles that mark out something as scientific

  Objectivity

  Control

  predictability

  Hypothesis testing

  Replication
• objectivity


  Without bias or preconceptions
• control 


  research takes place under carefully controlled conditions
• predictability 


  data from scientific experimentation can generally be used to predict future behavior and events
• hypothesis testing 


  theories and existing knowledge should generate predictions
• replication 


  experiments should be replicable