Psychology and science

We will also consider some basic assumptions that most of us hold about psychology. What does it mean to say that psychology is a science? How is psychology rooted in the scientific and philosophical endeavors of the past? How has the field of psychology changed over the last 100 years?

 

kuhnbook.gif (40318 bytes)       Thomas Kuhn and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions

                       (You should read the biographical material and at least one synopsis)

 

 

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