Psychology As A Science

Question 1

Paradigm

Answer 1

A change in a way of thinking. Known as a “scientific revolution”. Paradigm shift is an important change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline

Question 2

Falsifiable

Answer 2

The capacity for some proposition, statement, hypothesis or theory to be proven wrong, an essential component of the scientific method and hypothesis testing. E.g. Freud is not falsifiable