Scientific

• Psychology as a science

  Objectivity

  Falsifiable

  Replicable
• Falsifiability is the idea that a theory can be proven false through experimentation
• Reliability is the idea that you have to be able to repeat what you’ve done to increase reliability
• Falsifiability renders Freud’s theories useless as we can‘t prove that something such as the id is false
• replicability may render case studies useless as it may be unethical to repeat them due to the patients usually having a specific disorder or brain injury so would be unethical to inflict on someone else.
• What type of data is considered quantifiable in psychology?

  Numerical data that is objectively measured
• What does falsifiability in psychology allow researchers to do?

  Prove something true by showing it can be false
• What does objectivity in psychology refer to?

  Observing without bias or prejudice
• What is reductionism in the context of psychology?

  Focusing on one cause of complex behavior
• What is validity in psychological research?

  Accurate measurement of behavior and conclusions