is Psychology a science

Question 1

What makes psychology scientific?

Answer 1

• falsifiable
  -Validity
• reliability
• empirical
• reductionist
• controls
• cause and effect
• objective

Question 2

How is Baddeley scientific ?
- cognitive

Answer 2

• standardised procedure of word lists, same distractor task, same timings, can be easily repeated- RELIABLE
  -Data was collected by word recall out of 5 - OBJECTIVE

Question 3

How is Baddeley not scientific?
- cognitive

Answer 3

• recall is all to do with word type which ignores all individual differences which can affect recall- REDUCTIONIST
• conducted in a lab with high control over extraneous variable such as hearing- lacks ecological Validity