Nature of psychologyis scientific.justify
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Explanation:
Psychology is a science because it follows the empirical method. The scientific status of any endeavor is determined by its method of investigation, not what it studies, or when the research was done, and certainly not by who did the investigation. All sciences use the empirical method. Empiricism emphasizes objective and precise measurement.
Psychology and the other behavioral or social sciences (sociology, anthropology, economics, political science) are not as precise in their measurements as are biology, chemistry or physics, but to the extent that psychologists use empirical evidence, their findings may be referred to as scientific.
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. We can directly observe and carefully measure externals such as what a person does, says, and marks down on a psychological test. We cannot directly observe a person's mind (e.g., internal thoughts, emotions).
Here is how to remember that a psychologist is a scientist who studies behavior using the empirical method. Notice that in the word psychologist the letter O is repeated twice. That does not happen in psychiatrist or psychoanalyst or even psychotherapist. Imagine that those letters are eyeballs opened wide, so that the psychologist can better observe behavior: e.g., what a rat does in a maze or how a patient behaves.