Title: What Makes Psychology a Science? | Career Trend
Headings: What Makes Psychology a Science?
What Makes Psychology a Science?
Roots in Established Sciences
The Scientific Method
Descriptiveness
Falsifiability
Objectivity

Content: It attempts to create experiments that measure social phenomena against a control, mimicking the type of laboratory research conducted in more established scientific disciplines. Objectivity
Traditional views of science state that in order to be considered a science, a discipline must be objective, a characteristic that is ensured through careful observation and experimentation. Arguments in favor of considering psychology a science maintain that psychology does this by maintaining a focus on research. Yet unlike traditional scientists, psychologists are also susceptible to personal biases that can influence an experiment. Likewise, psychology experiments are much more influenced by external factors, such as influence from participants themselves or changing social constructs over time, that make them harder to replicate than other sciences. Psychologists, like sociologists, attempt to control such influences in the way they structure their experiments, asking questions in an order designed to disguise the purpose of the study, for example.