Question

describe psychology as a branch of scientific knowledge.​

Answer 1

Required Answer:

☑Psychology is a science because it follows the empirical method.

☑It is this emphasis on the empirically observable that made it necessary for psychology to change its definition from the study of the mind (because the mind itself could not be directly observed) to the science of behavior.

Answer 2

psychology as a self-conscious field of experimental study began in 1879, when wilhelm wundt founded the first laboratory dedicated exclusively to psychology resarch in leipzig, germany.