CRITICALLY COMPARE AND CONTRAST PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE AND AS A NON-SCIENCE.

CRITICALLY COMPARE PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE AND NON-SCIENCE
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CRITICALLY COMPARE PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE AND NON-SCIENCE Any scientific discipline is backed up by adequate data and its analysis leads to a desired end-point. Hence, methodologies deployed in research are very important and accurate in portraying or analysing an issue in science. Such methodologies and its subsequent results provide a roadmap for the scientist to implement or plan strategies. For example, when an individual is suffering from an infection, he or she is asked to take a culture sensitivity test. This test helps in identifying the likely pathogen of the disease. Based on the pathogen he or she is prescribed an antibiotic, which leads to positive health outcomes. Therefore, medical science is a “science” as cause and effect relations are often objectified through appropriate methodology. On the other hand Psychology deploys subjective analysis and the methodology may not always signify such cause and effect relations (Gazzaniga, 2010).
For example, illusory correlation is one such methodology. Correlation is a process of relating two events in time and space. In illusory correlation, a relationship is speculated without any actual or scientific basis of such correlation and in most instances such correlations do not hold to be true. A person who is suffering from a loss of mood is often classified as a depressive state. However, such extrapo…