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Originally Posted by munchen
NO!!! although they have a commitment to the scientific method it is not a science.
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Let me ask you this -- Have you ever taken a psych class? I never considered psychology to be a true science until I took a class (this year actually!).
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how can you make predictions on the behaviour of a brain when you dont even know what's in it! or how it works!
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If my car starts smoking, I know something bad is about to happen. Do I know how a car works? Something to do with internal combustion... You can learn from experience and make new decisions based on that. I think that's how every discipline works. I do agree that if you're going to major in psych you should take some neurobiology classes. It goes with the field.
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we can make definite predictions and diagnoses and all our proofs are universally applicable and accurate.
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And psychologists can't? Here's a scenario. You're living in a controlled environment, and every Tuesday and Friday you get to eat your favorite food (let's say pizza). This goes on for a couple of weeks. Then Dr. Jones puts a little ipecac or old cheese on your pizza. You get ill soon after eating the pizza. For a long time you can't face pizza without feeling nauseous. It's called taste aversion. Psychologists can predict and explain it much better than I did.
I think what it all comes down to is this -- You guys deal with the interactions between the brain and various neurochemicals which produce thought processes. Psychologists deal with the interactions of the thought processes with each other and the chemicals. You're both awesome, peace.