What psychological theory has made a specific prediction that has been tested, thereby refuting the theory?
At *best* psychology seems to be at the 'data collecting' stage prior to actually doing science. But without theories that make predictions that can be tested that thereby force a reconsideration of the theory, there is no science.
There are certain branches that seem to be getting closer to science: those that involve neurology and the biological aspects of the mind. But this is still very much in infancy.
Psychology still seems to be at the level of alchemy: there is a lot of interesting data being collected, but there is also a lot of hokum and nonsense. There is a hope it will actually evolve into a science (as alchemy did to chemistry), but that is going to take a LOT more work.
At *best* psychology seems to be at the 'data collecting' stage prior to actually doing science. But without theories that make predictions that can be tested that thereby force a reconsideration of the theory, there is no science.
There are certain branches that seem to be getting closer to science: those that involve neurology and the biological aspects of the mind. But this is still very much in infancy.
Psychology still seems to be at the level of alchemy: there is a lot of interesting data being collected, but there is also a lot of hokum and nonsense. There is a hope it will actually evolve into a science (as alchemy did to chemistry), but that is going to take a LOT more work.