The scientific approach in psychology - Revision notes PDF

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Revision notes that discuss the strengths and weaknesses of taking a scientific approach in psychology....

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The scientific approach in psychology  What are the strengths of using a scientific approach in psychology?  ● Due to its dependence on objectivity and scientific methods, knowledge collected is more than just the passive recognition of facts  ● Because scientific methods believe in determinism, they can discover the causes of behaviour through the use of replicable methods  ● If scientific methods no longer apply the facts, then they can easily be refined or rejected, meaning that scientific information is self-corrective  What are the weaknesses of using a scientific approach in psychology?  ● Be focusing on objectivity and control in experiments tend to be too unrealistic, and we lack acumen for natural behaviour  ● A lot of psychological behaviour is unobservable and therefore cannot be measured with much precision, meaning that the gap between actual data and theories put forward is quite large  ● Not all psychologists believe that human behaviour can be viewed scientifically as it is not subject to rules and regularities that science suggests....