"Is Psychology a Science?" - Introduction to Psychology (Part 2)
Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Before answering, it is important to describe what science is, what its goals are, the requisites a field has to be a science, and to examine whether psychology can fulfill that criteria. What is Science? Science is any field that follows the scientific method. This consists of five steps: making an observation/formulating a question, establishing a hypothesis, conducting a test, analyzing the data, and forming a conclusion. In order to find out whether psychology undergoes the scientific method we will examine a research paper to check if psychologists do follow these steps. The paper that will be examined comes from the journal Psychopharmacology , which is also the branch of psychology that deals with the effects of drugs. It is titled "Effects of 2-bromoterguride, a dopamine D2 receptor partial agonist, on cognitive dysfunction and social aversion in rats." As mentioned before, the scientific method starts wi