/sci/ - Science & Math

>>5500472
A "science" is anything that builds knowledge through testable explanations and predictions.

Yes.

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology
>Psychology is an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and behaviors.

It is, just the amount of variables you need to account for makes it a very "messy" science. I think it's necessary for understanding the human brain, but it's very easy to enter the realm of pseduoscience.

It depends on who you ask.
Popper would call it a pseudoscience, because it (most of the time) is unfalsifiable.
The Vienna Circle would say its a pseudoscience as well.

It is in category called "social science", along with economics, sociology, geography, and anthropology.

Psychology is the mintberry-crunch of science.
Its therapy part is not really medicine, its neuroscience stuff isn't really biology.

>>5500491
>it (most of the time) is unfalsifiable.
Except it isn't.

>>5500496
Neuroscience isn't medicine. That would be neurology.

>>5500502

Where exactly do I say that neuroscience = medicine?

I was arguing that even though psychology contains therapeutical and biologic/neuroscientific fields, it is outperformed by other sciences in almost everything it tries to accomplish.
Medicine is better for therapy, neuroscience is better for research.

The only thing that psychology has as a "stand alone" topic is "behavior". And quite frankly, it is boring as hell.

As a whole, yes. Some very dedicated empiricists and experimentalists who've done well. Taken in parts, well... just Wikipedia Lacan, for instance.

Psychology is incredibly broad, some parts of it are science, some are not.

>>5500512
>Where exactly do I say that neuroscience = medicine?
My bad. I misread your post.

>The only thing that psychology has as a "stand alone" topic is "behavior". And quite frankly, it is boring as hell.
This is something that's hardly an objective truth though is it?

>>5500472
It studies Human behaviour and brain so yes, it is.

>>5500512
>neuroscience is better for research.
- Neuroscience labs almost always have psychologists.
- Psychologists publish in neuroscience journals and neuroscientists publish in psychology journals.
- Some psychology curricula are almost the exact same as neuroscience curricula.
- Psychology helped establish neuroscience and has evolved with it.
- experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, biological psychology and several others all use stuff like EEG, fMRI, PET in the same way neuroscientists use them.