I understand your rationale Wolf, and I agree with it to a point. Mainly on a theoretical basis...for example, there is no objective way to test Maslow...yet.
However, I consider it a science (the same way I consider sociology to be a science) b/c scientific methods are used to support or discredit many theories. Psychology knows that it can't prove the existance of a god, and knows that each tool (correlation, ANOVA, case study, etc.) has its limitations. But it goes about obtaining results as objectively as possible using scientific methods.
Having been a chemistry and biology major before becoming a psych major, I see a lot of similarities in their "behavior." What sets psychology and sociology apart from the physical sciences is as I mentioned earlier--the inability to test some theories. I personally don't think that makes them any less scientific though.
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Originally posted by wolf
Oh, and Syc ... I'll see your Bachelors and raise you my Masters ... they are "of Arts" merely as a consequence of the programs we respectively went to. There are schools that offer MS in Clinical Psych as well.
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Oh, I know. Had I stayed at SEMO, I would have a B.S., rather than the B.A.