IS PSYCHOLOGY REALLY A SCIENCE?

IS PSYCHOLOGY REALLY A SCIENCE?



There are many factors which explain why psychology is a science but then there are many conflicting factors also. This essay outlines some of the points of each side of the argument and the conclusion is based upon my opinion from research.
Science comes from the Latin word scientia from scire, which means “to know”. It is a term used in its broadest sense to denote systematic knowledge into any field but usually applied to the organization of objectively verifiable sense. The field that contributed most to the development of scientific psychology was physiology—the study of the functions of the various organ systems of the body. The German physiologist Johannes Müller tried to relate sensory experience both to events in the nervous system and to events in the organism’s physical environment. The first true exponents of experimental psychology were the German physicist Gustav Theodor ...