Is Psychology a Science ?
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Abstract
THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION'S spokes-persons have a number of favorite phrases when they discuss psychology. They offen refer to the "the basic science of psychology," or to the "scientific research" that helps to provide the foundations of the discipline. Somehow the term science has become linked to descriptions of what psychology's researchers and practitioners do. However, there are skeptics who wonder about the accuracy of these descriptions. Are they reasonable representations stemming from the time in 1879 when Wilhelm Wundt ushered psychology into the family of sciences in Leipzig? Or are they ways of paying lip service to the discipline's desire to appear scientific when in fact the field has a long way to go to achieve scientific status?