It's a strategically sound to have him host the very first video on the new channel. Of all the SciShow hosts, he does introductions best. :-)
@SpeedOfTheEarth7 жыл бұрын
Skehmatics +
@IamSamys7 жыл бұрын
I came to the comment section to look for exactly this
@alexisholguin19667 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂 I applaud you sir
@canadiantemple7 жыл бұрын
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH!!!
@lazyperfectionist17 жыл бұрын
At the 1:46 point, I'm pausing to emphasize this point. A _testable_ hypothesis means a hypothesis that is *verifiable if true* _and_ *falsifiable if false.* This means that you have to be able to brainstorm, beforehand, about which observable manifestations should exist in _both_ cases, and then you should be able to check for both, and if _both_ are observable, then your conclusions are not useful.
@Haphro-V4 жыл бұрын
Is not science
@judetong96143 жыл бұрын
It is still a Science, but it is not a perfect Science like Natural Science. Psychology is considered a Social Science.
@adragonflyingnorth9713 жыл бұрын
Exactly I've been debating with a stem bro about this, the very own paradigm psychology comes from is not verifiable nor scientific, psychology is much a science as poetry is
@aktchungrabanio64672 жыл бұрын
@@judetong9614 Social what?
@remmaps1233217 жыл бұрын
As a psychology major, I'll drop my two cents here. In my university, it's under the School of Social Sciences. The hardest part about answering the question "Is Psychology A Science?" is that there are numerous approaches to psychology - all of which are entirely different from each other. For instance, Psychodynamics (Freud, Adler, etc.) barely has any empirical evidence let alone scientific explanations; it is more philosophical in nature. Cognitive and Behaviorist (Skinner, Bandura, etc.) approaches are still made up of abstract concepts but are based on experimentation and observed empirical evidence. Physiological Psychology (behavioral neuroscience), is probably the most scientific you could get with psychology; it studies emotions, intelligence, abilities, internal states, etc. in the lens of the nervous system. In my opinion, it is a social science, but is a collection of scientific and philosophical concepts, and there's nothing wrong with that.
@raghav9o93 жыл бұрын
It's collection of social(studying abstract things or studying about human social behaviour)+ science (by scientific method) === Social Science.
@智障-k1s3 жыл бұрын
I agree. It doesn’t mean psychology isn’t scientific it’s just not a science. I think the reason for this debate is people see “science” as this god like existence and glorify it. I mean maths isn’t a science either.
@judetong96143 жыл бұрын
Science, from the Latin word "Scientia" which means knowledge. Knowledge is not only about using laboratory settings and experiments but to search for information. Just like applied science, computer science, political science, health science, formal science, behavioral science, biological/life science, physical science, earth science, social science... We all need knowledge and Natural Sciences aren't the only ones that provide it.
@antojames93873 жыл бұрын
@@智障-k1s no. maths and its calculations are objective. They are testable and empirical by experimental support. But psychology is something like 50% science and 50% untestable hypothesis. Most of its empirical stuffs adapted are actually generalization, which may or mayn't be true.
@irvingsherwood12342 жыл бұрын
There is a huge problem with it, if you're advocating chemical treatment on "philosophical" and theoretical basis - the only valid approach in that case is with a comprehensive biological understanding of the neurological/behavioral correlation - which we are not fully with, and instead, industry is taught to exploit what we don't know, instead of building upon what we do. You should find the answer to the question posed by the title in the other comment I just posted. It may inspire you plural.
@maddiev23237 жыл бұрын
Super excited for this new channel!
@cholten997 жыл бұрын
Really interesting to see "self reporting" put on a par with measuring something concrete like endorphin levels. It'd be really interesting to see a video on the value and issues surrounding self reporting as a methodological tool for psychology.
@muffinbanana Жыл бұрын
I know it's been six years, but maybe it's still relevant to you: If you think about it, endorphin levels are not as concrete as they sound. Every person has an individual endorphin level inducing individually different physical and psychological reactions with individual cognitive assessments of those reactions, all of which are based on individually different prior experiences and development. In the end, the endorphin level itself only covers a part of what potentially constitutes the experience of happiness in a person, and can only suggest a tendency. A very useful tendency, yes, but still no psychophysiological measurements can lead to an objective, comprehensive assessment of happiness, as the concept of happiness was never solely based on physiology to begin with. Say, for example, someone choosing the number 7 on a 1-to-10 scale when being asked about how happy they feel, is just as concrete a measure, as it (unidimensionally) addresses an important aspect of happiness, just like endorphin level (unidimensionally) addresses a different one. Which of the possible aspects of happiness you choose to assess depends on, like Hank said, the study-specific reasons and desired type of data. This food for thought is not as helpful and cool as a scishow video by far, but might be interesting nonetheless. :)
@stanleyklein524 Жыл бұрын
You are clueless as to the issues in play. A likert scale is as arbitrary a measuring instrument as ever has been adopted by a discipline(in this case -- a discipline consumed with the desire to be accepted as science). The "numbers" on a Likert scale have no interval or ratio properties (as expect of a real science). They are at best ordinal (more likely nominal). You cannot differentiate theoretic claims based on ordinality. More, comparing subjective interpretation of symbols (Likert symbols are numeric in name only) with consensually agreed on physical measures (e.g., the objective number of times variable X is observced) is a fool's task. More, Likert values have no numeric meaning. If I rate myself 5 on a happiness scale (sic), and rate yourself 5, is it logically justified to say we experience the same subjective feeling of happiness? No! More (good grief) -- you conflate individual variation with between-participant variability. Please tell me you do not have an advanced degree (we already credential too many way beyond their capabilities). @@muffinbanana
@aRchAng3lZz Жыл бұрын
@@stanleyklein524 no, that's about the standard for an MSc in Psych. The whole replication crisis spectacle, showed that it is almost universal standard - we were fine with measurement being defined as "assigning numbers to things" (true story) and while now some people in the field are a bit more aware, my sense is that not much has changed in understanding (one can extrapolate from how we address said crisis).
@untitlednewuser7 жыл бұрын
Psychology has different "currents". Some use scientific methodology (behaviorism, neuropsychology) but others rarely do (psychoanalysis). There is a huge difference between Skinner and Freud.
@lostthepirate63117 жыл бұрын
Bob Bobson I hope that they do an episode on the history of psychology, as well as the differing schools of thought within it - you're right, there's such a huge difference between different eras and schools of thought in psychology.
@shinomustdie4 жыл бұрын
@@lostthepirate6311 That would make it a philosophy
@swavekbu49594 жыл бұрын
@@shinomustdie Science is an empirical philosophy.
@romantheflash7 жыл бұрын
As a person with a psych degree, I appreciate this first video very much. Something important to show a lot of people what they will be getting into when they start psych (I found a lot of people did not expect the stats or so much science of it and dropped out pretty quickly or changed degrees....)
@markplimsoll Жыл бұрын
Bulloney, a liar, no understanding of real science, or self-medicating for self-diagnosed disorder? Evidence for Higgs Boson came almost immediately after turning on Cern Switzerland's Large Hadron Colider in 2010, built for the international physics community for $14 billion on confidence in the math from the 1960s. What does Psychology give us? Pop-psy fads, currently "narcissist" and "narcissism." The REALLY UGLY TRUTH: Psycholgy gave USA three Mass Histerias; Satanic Killings Alien Abductions, and Hypnotic Regression of adults to "recover" parental child abuse, putting innocent grandparents in jail. Laws still on the books against this witchdoctoring. In college, those who cannot handle math and real science opt for psychology, to become "therapists" with no adequate training, no professional guidelines, no supervision nor supervising agency, and NO ACCOUNTABILITY. Yet we let Courts pimp them for "expert opinion" hearsay?!? Google "Is psychology science?" RESULT: Why psychology is not considered a science? "Because psychology often does not meet the five basic requirements for a field to be considered scientifically rigorous: clearly defined terminology, quantifiability, highly controlled experimental conditions, reproducibility and, finally, predictability and testability. Aug 13, 2013"
@pharma37 Жыл бұрын
There are very few degrees easier than a Psych degree. Whenever I saw an airhead on campus, I already knew they were a Psy major. They constantly wanted to appear intelligent, and that meant they were the easiest to manipulate.
@crismidi5891 Жыл бұрын
@@pharma37ah yes this is so factual
@pharma37 Жыл бұрын
@@crismidi5891 The only thing you had to do was politely disagree with everything they say. They can't handle it, so they sleep with you to prove you wrong. Every. Single. Time.
@crismidi5891 Жыл бұрын
@@pharma37 them being assholes dont make psychology invalid
@MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs7 жыл бұрын
I really hope the next video is about the replication crisis in psychology!
@tb88272 ай бұрын
It's straight up quackery.
@andreherrmannofficial10 ай бұрын
A video about why psychology is a science, full of facts why psychology can never be a science. Good job!
@andressanchez50077 жыл бұрын
can you make at least one that has to do with autism and our brains
@agjakku7 жыл бұрын
I would be surprised if they wouldn't do anything about autism, just wait :) as for brains, whole psychology focuses on them, therefore this whole channel propably will too!
@omarkoussa24467 жыл бұрын
Fun fact Autism is now categorized under neurological disorders not psychological
@SpeedOfTheEarth7 жыл бұрын
Noname +
@thala4047 жыл бұрын
+Omar Koussa - Actually, if you want to quibble, it is classified as a pervasive NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL disorder...
@MakeMeThinkAgain7 жыл бұрын
I was going to suggest they add Neuroscience to this and Crash Course Sociology. I would think that understanding autism was more about neuroscience than simply psychology. Temple Grandin's "Thinking In Pictures" and Oliver Sacks's book where he talks about Grandin would be good places to start looking for this kind of information.
@savannah44397 жыл бұрын
Idk, I'm not entirely convinced...From all the psych that I've taken, much of the data comes from some sort of self-reporting system, like having people rate an experience or say how something made them feel. Neuroscience, yes, obvious, observable science. But psych? Seems more like a "hard" social science to me. The whole idea of social science *is* applying the scientific method/reasoning to other, usually more abstract fields, which sounds suspiciously like a description of trying to scientifically study the mind. I don't think that makes it any lesser than a more definitive science like neuro, just different. Heck, I'm a pre-med social science major for crying out loud! I still think it's a social science, but I'm willing to be convinced if/when later videos give me that data to support the claim.
@lostthepirate63117 жыл бұрын
Savannah I appreciate you keeping an open mind, and hopefully the channel will help you better understand the modern state of psychology. :)
@prairiewolfo92745 жыл бұрын
Savannah I agree with one of the others who answered. Psychology isn't a science, it's an art, and as such is not bounded by the moral constraints that bind the true sciences. Axiom: When satan fell from heaven he dragged with him one third of divine beings. Identity: Sigismund Schlomo Freud. When things don't go the way psychologists want they use determination and force to impose their ideas on the victim, rather than patiently waiting to learn. Being shackled in this retardation is enough, but it is very hard to see. Wait patiently and you may come to understand the truth about the cursed kingdom of psychoanalysis.
@Grahamf44 жыл бұрын
@@prairiewolfo9274 Sorry but that is nonsense. Psychology is not a hard science and never can be but it is not an art in any way or form. Of course it is bound by moral constraints. Any psychologist (researcher or clinician) is bound by a set of ethical guidelines they need to follow. They would not be allowed to practice or conduct research otherwise.
@prairiewolfo92744 жыл бұрын
Graham Ford Your reply is located in the mundane sphere we call “our society”. There are higher spheres, and ways of being prevented from practicing other than being struck off by a controlling body. If human conduct was morally perfect there would be no suffering or disease in the world. Everyone else being imperfect doesn’t make the psychologist better. It must be relatively easy to satisfy governing bodies in “our society”, since it was certainly achieved by Fermi and co. at the Manhattan Project, not to mention the dons at Harvard who invented napalm: two innovations without a morally justifiable use. Any practice that plays on others’ weaknesses or unpreparedness is at best an art, like that of the door to door salesman or card sharp. From your tone, I would surmise that you occupy a role in society as a scientist (or possibly a psychologist). If psychology is a science you should be able to quite easily show the error in one who opposes you; conversely if it is an art whatever tricks you could try would be seen by the perceptive. My view is that psychology is just what the founders of true science called sophistry: they harm themselves (and others) but cannot admit the connection between the suffering and their sinister deeds. Some of them might even try to play on the weakness of society in order to bring about the end of morally superior people by the exertion of force. Power without wisdom has never been a blessing.
@utkarshsingh77874 жыл бұрын
@@prairiewolfo9274 well, most of the capitalist world is running on psychological hacks developed recently. So, you might not "want" to call it science, but seemingly, Heisenberg's uncertainty applies more to this field.
@private123-r5c4 жыл бұрын
love how my psychology teacher starts us with this awesome video!
@geigercourtier4 жыл бұрын
You should probably drop that class if you want more than a credit
@henrikhansen10233 жыл бұрын
On his premises for science anybody can invent at field of study and claim it to be science. There is a zillion reason why psychology can never på science the way physics and biology is science.
@Psychedlia98 Жыл бұрын
@@henrikhansen1023 Yes, despite the decades of research and it continuing to evolve, therefore it is not a science, you guys have a mechanical view on the world
@henrikhansen1023 Жыл бұрын
@@Psychedlia98 Look, of course you can disagree. But.... ....then again: If psychiatrists claim that not all diseases can be astablished like cholera, broken legs and bronchitis.... .....does that excuse them for providing some sort of proof for that claim? Meaning tells is how they know that for a fact!? Fact is psychiatry wants us to accept same as science simply by their claim. The very people who mistreated their clients with cold water after forceful stripping, insuline shock, lobotomy, thorazine, electro shock ..... .....and even electrical torture USED RIGHT UP TO MODERN TIMES at the Judge Rotenberg the so called educational center. Under the eufemism adversale therapy. Same way they tried to cured homosexuality. Psychiatry is simply not an acceptable and legitimate instution. If psychiatry can claim to be science on psychiatrist’s stated terms then so can astrology
@henrikhansen1023 Жыл бұрын
@@Psychedlia98 Speaking of decades of research: Research is exactly what psychiatry is supposed to be able to provide for validation to anybody who wants for their so called mental diseases. Besides......decades is an understatement when speaking of the so called chemical imbalance in the brain. Try 70 years - substantially more than half a century - spending billions of dollars. And what have psychiatrists been able to come up with after all that time not to mention money: Exactly nothing.
@slipknotboy5557 жыл бұрын
3:54 Yep; I was really impressed how much time was spent on the importance of critical thinking, the scientific method, objective evidence, understanding bias (including in oneself), and of course, pseudoscience, among other things, in my second intro psych course a couple years ago. I was in a different major at the time, but am in psych now. Many logical fallacies were covered, and everyone was shown how to interrogate claims/spot pseudoscience pretty damn well, for example.
@markplimsoll Жыл бұрын
Bulloney, a liar, no understanding of real science, or self-medicating for self-diagnosed disorder? Evidence for Higgs Boson came almost immediately after turning on Cern Switzerland's Large Hadron Colider in 2010, built for the international physics community for $14 billion on confidence in the math from the 1960s. What does Psychology give us? Pop-psy fads, currently "narcissist" and "narcissism." The REALLY UGLY TRUTH: Psycholgy gave USA three Mass Histerias; Satanic Killings Alien Abductions, and Hypnotic Regression of adults to "recover" parental child abuse, putting innocent grandparents in jail. Laws still on the books against this witchdoctoring. In college, those who cannot handle math and real science opt for psychology, to become "therapists" with no adequate training, no professional guidelines, no supervision nor supervising agency, and NO ACCOUNTABILITY. Yet we let Courts pimp them for "expert opinion" hearsay?!? Google "Is psychology science?" RESULT: Why psychology is not considered a science? "Because psychology often does not meet the five basic requirements for a field to be considered scientifically rigorous: clearly defined terminology, quantifiability, highly controlled experimental conditions, reproducibility and, finally, predictability and testability. Aug 13, 2013"
@meridianheights6255 Жыл бұрын
So, you think psychology is BS then?
@Luca-mv9vd7 жыл бұрын
psychology is a science only when it reaches its conclusions thanks to neurology, when it applies sociology it can be descriptive (with limitations) at best, but not scientific within the standards of the natural sciences.
@egopathtime32733 жыл бұрын
Psychology is probabilistic, not deterministic.
@Luca-mv9vd3 жыл бұрын
@@egopathtime3273 It is so because the human mind is changeable and subjective and there is no way to get direct access to it nor there is any formal language to universally describe it or analyze it.
@tooting_owl8543 Жыл бұрын
@@egopathtime3273 The etymology of 'science' is literally knowledge or what is known. If psychology is probabilistic it is more assumed. In the natural sciences irrefutable conclusions exist because they are arrived at through logic, which is a more powerful tool than observation.
@judetong9614Ай бұрын
According to the hierarchy of sciences by Auguste Comte, psychology is between biology and sociology. The hierarchy consists of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, to sociology. The further the science, the more complex it becomes. Nowadays, science is separated into two: 1. Natural sciences or "hard sciences" are mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology. 2. Social sciences or "soft sciences" are psychology, sociology, economics, and political science.
@DavidHogg17 жыл бұрын
Please do a video on overcoming procrastination
@RockBandRS7 жыл бұрын
Plasmaboo Maybe later.
@armadillito7 жыл бұрын
Plasmaboo will do.
@RuffoDaSilva887 жыл бұрын
Davis Green maybe later
@HalcyonSerenade7 жыл бұрын
I'm sure they'll get around to it.
@Dustpuma17 жыл бұрын
Watched a ted talk, talking about if you don't make a physical action to accompany your thought, you're way less likely to do it. Example: ugh I need to wash the dishes, then if you continue to sit there or get up later with a different purpose you won't do it at all.
@blueflame32987 жыл бұрын
Why are we Morbidly curious?
@manolotrlolo7 жыл бұрын
Blue Flame A Vsauce fan in the wild, quick, catch it
@ViniSocramSaint7 жыл бұрын
Actually...3
@PrayerSoldiers3 жыл бұрын
Good question. What do you think?
@Nicolas-wd5ec6 жыл бұрын
3:12 is a screen that perfectly shows the problem. Only the third option would be at all relevant or scientifically interesting, and still... is an endorphin the lone marker or indicator of a person's happiness? Are there other neurochemicals involved, (like dopamine, etc...) and how do they interact? And is this a measurement of momentary happiness or overall happiness? The questions go on... The other two options are just... risible.
@Nicolas-wd5ec6 жыл бұрын
Even the physical sciences weren't always as "rigorous" as they are today. The Galilean revolution changed all the natural sciences - turning them from pseudosciences into actual sciences. Similar event still hasn't happened in the social "sciences."
@drmichael827 жыл бұрын
whst about the lack of replicability of results?
@sarah-cz3uj7 жыл бұрын
Mike Zalez actually yes youre right
@stanleyklein5245 жыл бұрын
No theory (in any rationally acceptable sense) means no theory to replicate. Psychologists attempt, therefore, to replicate tokens. Pathetic.@@sarah-cz3uj
@jimzakany39005 жыл бұрын
That's a function of there being no laws and principles in psychology. It doesn't fit the definition of a science as it's presented at the beginning of the video. There is no paradigm upon which psychology rests, and it fails to predict and replicate behaviors based on any first principles.
@MoonlightDusk5 жыл бұрын
@@jimzakany3900 But people have to acknowledge the mental aspect because it ensues health problems despite physical conditions scientifically in the clear.
@zakany5 жыл бұрын
@@MoonlightDusk what does that have to do with my point? Can you state the Laws of Psychology? What are the fundamental principles of psychology?
@Pyriphlegeton7 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for launching this channel! :) It will be a very interesting journey, I'm sure.
@devinbarney7 жыл бұрын
I am incredibly incredibly excited for this channel. As a budding student of cultural psychology, my stake in the clear communication of this science could not be greater. Thank you so much for producing this work! From brief SciShow coverage to CrashCourse Psychology lectures... and now this. Thank you thank you! I would love to offer a hand at any research/writing needs if there's need!
@sugarsaltspice2 жыл бұрын
Well said!
@symbolxchannel7 жыл бұрын
Like alchemy and chemistry, psychology has two facets: the [semi-religious] unscientific one and the scientific one. It simply happens that psychology don't have different names to differentiate them.
@FM-dm8xj2 жыл бұрын
no not like chemistry kid.
@Psychedlia98 Жыл бұрын
not yet, but we are getting there, we need to get rid of psychoanalysis and focus more on cognitive, behavioral, neuropsych and so on.
@AD-bb9np4 жыл бұрын
There is definitely a standard definition of science and the scientific method is not just a guide
@ihatoon0147 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@sarah-cz3uj7 жыл бұрын
Wow i didnt know that happiness can be mesured by the amount of lughing...who says a person who laughs more is acutually happier?maybe he is even so sad..this is so Imprecise,actually we dont have a tool for measurnent of things in psy cuz its SUBJECTIVE...and its so important...this is one of the resons I say psy is not a sciense...
@rhandomcommenter95503 жыл бұрын
Who says that counting the amount of laughing is the only way to measure happiness? 3:10
@HayleyHarp7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this!! As a psychology major, I took so many neuroscience/anatomy focused classes to learn how the brain works and literally 2 years of learning statistical analysis and how to conduct research. I would argue that there are a few different ways you can study psychology, based on the courses you choose and the career you pursue, that would make it maybe more or less of a hard science vs. a social science. However, all of it is still science. It's nice to hear the validation from someone else haha!
@Soldierboy54b7 жыл бұрын
+Hayley Harp....Psychology & sociology is for girls with "science envy."
@reds7vn6447 жыл бұрын
Hayley Harp Psychology is pure and 100 percent BS... A team of 270 scientists tried reproducing 100 psychology and social science studies that had been published in three top peer-reviewed U.S. journals in 2008. Just 39 percent came out with same results as the initial reports, said the findings in the journal Science. This is why you can go to one psychiatrist or psychologist and get a diagnosis and then turn around and go to a completely different one and get a different diagnosis and then turn around and do the same thing with another one and get a different diagnosis yet again. They're never going to come back and say the same thing all three. I'm actually done this same story same emotion same Expressions body language, and in six instances I got six different diagnosis. I did this over the span of a month with military psychiatrist and VA psychiatrist. It's all opinion that's all it is nothing more they sit there they listen they observe and they say you do this because of this and well you have these feelings are these emotions or outbursts because of this. In reality they have no clue and just SWAG it. For those of you that don't know what SWAG is Scientific Wild Ass Guess. But what they all have in common is their pill-pushers medicaid medicaid medicaid is there matra.
@parsen26856 жыл бұрын
RED S7VN LOL I saw the same comment again from you. Why are you such a try hard with this? You’re humiliating yourself dude. You haven’t even stated a counter argument to what I’ve said during your last comment, and here you are again with your brainless copy pastes.
@reds7vn6446 жыл бұрын
Erosen Sendo You do realize I made those blanket comments on the same day??? You're actually the one who can't make an argument past environment. So much so that now you're nitpicking and name calling. Basically grasping at straws in an attempt to discredit me. This isn't 3rd grade, grow up.
@parsen26856 жыл бұрын
RED S7VN yeah right lol... perhaps I didn’t present my cases last time to look like arguments because I was too kind not to be too aggressive with my response. What I’m trying to say is you have an issue with one field in psyhology, yet you’re generalizing it to all. If you are gonna be so keen in critiquing atleast be specific which field and don’t generalize. Very simple. Also I’ve read te article you were always citing. Their conclusion to the results was that those psychological fields need to revamp their research procedures and to reconceptualize, but here you are exagerating it and claiming that they did debunk the fields 100%. If anything, your overgeneralizing may prove you to be the third grader between us.
@helpdesk95352 жыл бұрын
Defining behavioral patterns is not science. Neurologists would confirm till this day that we still have no ideea how our brains work. Strongest argument!
@Psychedlia98 Жыл бұрын
damn, you just single handedly defeated a field of science, congrats my guy.
@kisakisakura66637 жыл бұрын
I can't believe it took me this long to find this channel. Instantly subscribed. Keep up the amazing work!
@kenzoilstrikesback11647 жыл бұрын
You are going to find that the current state of psychology is less "science" based than you think. Research and experimentation are rarely replicated. Conclusions are spurious statements that loosely relate to the evidence provided in the research. The field is riddled with low effort meta-analysis based on research done decades ago. For a field that requires the utmost rigor in research and repetition of these experiments to find the current state of our knowledge of human behavior, it is lacking considerably. I wish most research papers state what they do know and what they don't know. To often then not, they makes claims about what they don't know yet.
@Vidiri7 жыл бұрын
It's awesome that they are starting this channel. It's so hard to find reputable sources that talk about psychology in layman's terms.
@S8tan77 жыл бұрын
"I hope you'll join us" You know what Hank? I think I will
@megalyssa7 жыл бұрын
So excited for this channel. Huge thank you to the scishow patrons! You guys rock and keep this going for those of us who can't pay for the content. And of course the scishow team for making this awesome content
@PTNLemay7 жыл бұрын
I think one of the strongest (though incomplete) counter-arguments to psychological study as a science is that, the more you try and create a controlled and replicable environment in which to perform the experiments, the more people will change their behavior due to the extreme isolation or unusual circumstances they've been placed in. If you put a person in a sound-proof tank with no outside influences they're going to be weirded out and tune their behavior heavily until they are outside and more at ease. But once they are back in the outside world, then they are once against susceptible to all manner of distractions which will fudge the results. That being said, I don't think that means psychology isn't a science. I just think it means we don't yet have biometrics that are powerful enough (and discrete enough) to truly observe people like that in a rigorous manner. The science exists, it's just all that harder to reach.
@stanleyklein5245 жыл бұрын
Necessity is not equivalent to sufficiency (re the method canard). Oh the humanity.
@itsjustbree92675 жыл бұрын
But Hank, it makes us feel good about ourselves to say that whatever non-psychology science we happen to be studying is real science and that psychology isn't. It makes us feel smart. We need to feel like we're better than someone to feel good about ourselves. Don't take that away from us. XD
@SleepDaMouse-xd8dn5 жыл бұрын
He didn’t. He proved nothing
@mmgheys3 жыл бұрын
I was tired of claims in a self-help book that didn't have any reasons behind them, so I searched and I found this. I'm so happy that finally, I found a source for getting to know more about the brain.
@VideoPerfection7 жыл бұрын
We are the first fans ever! Remember us when you reach 1 million.
@smite69186 жыл бұрын
Video Perfection the fact that they haven’t reached 1 million yet is very disturbing
@Amanda-wk9kk7 жыл бұрын
As a person clinically diagnosed with bipolar in 2010 thank you for making this channel. I had a discussion just the other day on very similar subjects with a person who belongs to a certain religious group who does not believe in psychology at all and thinks it is a scam. She was disappointed about the medication prescribed by my doctor and thought it was wrong that my doctor recommended I apply for disability. Well this threw me into a full blown panic attack and I tried my best to explain to her that while I respect her religious views I am going to do what I think is best for me. I have a Bachelors degree in Veterinary Technology and anatomy is my favorite subject and I explained to her that when I assist in surgery and I can see how things work I always feel better, the same goes for Psychology. I take an anti-seizure medication that treats my Bipolar by balancing out the same chemicals it balances out to stop seizures. It's not made up science, it is all in the chemicals. Also many people with Bipolar have a smaller or damaged pre-frontal cortex which is where emotions are processed so it makes sense. She blew me off asking for more proof and gave me a pamphlet to read. She is lucky I'm somewhat stable and on meds, if she had tried this on someone else something bad cold have happened. She is somewhat of a friend of mine and I always try to respect other people's views but she just wouldn't stop. I just keep telling myself that things will be ok. Science will prevail! I hope you dedicate a video specifically to Bipolar.
@chikiwiki647 жыл бұрын
Ooh, do one on how reverse psychology works! Why do some people do the exact opposite of what they're told to do, despite usually being talked to by someone with more experience than them in that particular topic?
@NickolaySheitanov2 жыл бұрын
Depends on the person thats why psychology is pseudoscience it cant be quantified people have 1billion reasons for what they do each time. Some people have abusive parents that didnt let them do anything in life so thats their way to rebel and get their feedom back. Others are just crazy lmao depends on the person. Or it could be that they just dont know any better. Or it could be that they do know a lot who tf knows ask them everyone is different.
@aericwinter7 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad the patrons picked Psych as the new SciShow channel. Can't wait to see the first videos.
@darkgalaxy55482 жыл бұрын
So if your field can't easily be defined as science, the solution is to change the definition of science. And that's why we can say, musicology is definitely a science.
@_aidid5 жыл бұрын
Psychology is absolutely a field of science. Those, who do not accept this, are unaware of it properly.
@sketchingwithemy99007 жыл бұрын
QQ: I have herd many people say that people who are alike tend to not get along well is this true?
@juliehester56267 жыл бұрын
Subscribed! As a psychology major at a university I'm very excited about this channel😁
@erinpineapples17437 жыл бұрын
It's hilarious to me that this is a 5 minute video because I literally had an entire class on this question. Though to be fair, we went super in-depth and back to basics, having to define "what is science" and also "what is psychology". Speaking of which, "what is psychology" would be a super interesting topic for a video. And even after however many hours, the conclusion we mostly came to was a shrug and a "kind of" (mostly due to the difficulty of defining what "psychology" is in a way that separates it from any of the other scientific disciplines).
@lauracronbungusman15827 жыл бұрын
I would love to see a series about deviant disorders. People love to learn about disorders like Dissociative Identity Disorder or Catatonic Schizophrenia. Its very interesting and i think it could really bring in people's attention who are new to you, Hank.
@atiger47163 жыл бұрын
How it is possible to said so many word to mean nothing. Psicology is not a science, perhaps a pseudoscience.
@nadaqueocultar7 жыл бұрын
I couldn't be more excited about this. My new favourite youtube channel.
@mattscatterty7 жыл бұрын
I can't wait for SciShow to science the shit out of psychology ;)
@IA52342 Жыл бұрын
Having studied Noam Chomsky's linguistics at MIT, I find most videos like this are simple acts of self promotion, nothing to do with answering the question, which itself needs to be questioned. Is a label the thing it labels? If 97% of the PhD's in Geology proclaim that there is no such thing as continental drift - the continents could not possibly move! - then do we delete Geology from the list of "sciences?" [That was the case in the early 1970s] Might as well "debate" what is the accurate maximum number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin at one time. As a supporting mention on fake self reporting: The study of which sex watches more porno, men or women, the researchers knew that nobody reads the fine print on the "agreed to" list, and included that they could have access to the respondents credit card statements. The group was business men and women on out-of-town trips for work. 90% of the businesswomen proclaimed that they never watched porn, HOWEVER, their credit card statements at their hotels listed all the porn they rented! Way more than the men rented! Self-reporting, my left butt cheek! Theories based on it are such garbage.
@bass777chick7 жыл бұрын
So freaking excited for this!!! I'm considering going back to college to study psychology, and I'm sure watching this channel will help with my decision-making. :) And even if I don't, this will still be super interesting! Thank you Hank + SciShow Psych team, for making this channel happen!
@Whoaman5557 жыл бұрын
I would love to see a video go over ADD/ADHD at some point in the future. Maybe even include medication that treats people with ADD/ADHD.
@m7trf077 жыл бұрын
i really have high expectation from you don't disappoint me
@m7trf077 жыл бұрын
***** that's what i hope
@Blindblondephd7 жыл бұрын
Personality psychologist here--great episode! :)
@duffthepsych7 жыл бұрын
As a phd in clinical psych, I will agree that yes psych is a science, but yes it is tricky - as is any behavioral science.
@prairiewolfo92746 жыл бұрын
Duff The Psych However, any crank or mystic could put forward an equally strong argument that scientology or astrology is a science. If the psychologist talks about happiness but fails to achieve it, maybe it's close to sophistry.
@bretttoombs24656 жыл бұрын
Why must every psychologist begin their sentence with their unsolicited qualifications? A phd in clinical psychology is nothing brag about. Do psych people brag about their qualifications in order to impress other people or themselves? Just curious....
@prairiewolfo92746 жыл бұрын
As a phd in clinical psych, what are your views on the use of the disciplinary lobotomy?
@tooting_owl85436 жыл бұрын
Russell’s paradox entails the premise that some sets are not members of themselves, which leads, through defining R to be the set of all sets that are not members of themselves, to the contradiction that R is a member of R if and only if R is not a member of R. This occurs in the science of mathematics, where theorems are based upon axioms and proven beyond doubt. If you take psychology to be a science then there must be perfect analogy between it and mathematics. Since a flaw in a subject’s rationality would only be visible from outside the domain of rationality, Russell’s paradox in psychology implies that a doctor of the mind only is one when they are out of their mind. Heller twisted this into Catch 22, but it doesn’t acquit the pseudo-scientists who call themselves phd’s in clinical psych because they aren’t what they claim to be!
@prairiewolfo92746 жыл бұрын
Duff The Psych Cheers for answerin' Duff The Psych!
@Doubleranged17 жыл бұрын
Do you also take into account that the majority of studies might be false? I feel like with complex, often statistical studies like psychology it is untmost important to talk about the reliability of research in general.
@lilimarlene78137 жыл бұрын
My beginning psychology students (college) often confuse the discipline of Psychology with psychotherapy. They've been believing the myths that all psychologists do therapy, 'analyze' everybody and care about their problems.
@lostthepirate63117 жыл бұрын
Lili Marlene Yes! Clinical Psychology is just one potential focus of study, and the Freudian model is... to put it politely, rather out of fashion. It feels like so many people conflate the study of Psychology with therapeutic professions, and while there might be a lot of overlap, they are NOT the same.
@aaminahasan62707 жыл бұрын
I CANNOT WAIT. Can I just binge watch already?
@jimkujur3 жыл бұрын
Did you?
@MrKkbeau7 жыл бұрын
I'm very excited for this!! I'm a medical student interested in psychiatry or neurology, and in undergrad it always bothered me that psychology classes were not in the college of natural sciences?? They were part of the liberal arts school, and all the psych classes were reserved for psych majors except for intro psych, so as a neurobio major I was not permitted to take many psych classes, which was very frustrating.
@LucianoVeryNiceHi Жыл бұрын
because it is not a science hahha why else would it be omitted
@Psychedlia98 Жыл бұрын
@@LucianoVeryNiceHi yet the majority of the scientific community says otherwise, but i guess your ideology doens't allow that. have fun with your religious understanding of science.
@LucianoVeryNiceHi Жыл бұрын
@@Psychedlia98 lol your poor ad hominem attempts at insult won't help us pretend that your quak is a science. it is just a pragmatically denied relevance, nothing religious about it, just logical.
@Euphorion Жыл бұрын
im also a med student god i hope you wont become an actual doctor jfc
@SeanAnthony-j7f9 ай бұрын
Psychology is diverse because mind is both interpreted in literatures and Philosophy before it became a rigorous Science that actually trying to explain mental phenomena.
@haneenalattar0067 жыл бұрын
Im so excited for this channel! And I am thinking of majoring in psychology
@timhow7 жыл бұрын
This is my first year doing psychology, and I'm so glad this channel exists to aid me in it
@chiragsharma56242 жыл бұрын
read phylosphy insted
@Tomyb157 жыл бұрын
I'm psyched! Also please do a video on how much do Freudian ideas stand up to date and how much doesn't. Because some of them sound like pretty wild guesses to my limited knowledge of psychology.
@lostthepirate63117 жыл бұрын
Ciroluiro Freud is... still respected as someone who served as a catalyst to the field of Psychology, but (in my experience) very few still give his theories much weight. On the first day of one of my elective psych courses, the instructor mentioned the importance of "our good ol' Uncle Freud" to the syllabus and I dropped the course *that day*.
@RaphJonathanTan7 жыл бұрын
PSYCHOLOGY VS PSYCHIATRY, WHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO??? AND WHICH REQUIRES MORE LONGER STUDIES AND WGICH IS HARDER TO STUDY??
@HoshiHikari7 жыл бұрын
R.Jonathan Tan psychiatry takes longer because you have undergrad + med school + residency as opposed to undergrad + masters and/or PhD Harder is subjective. Med school is probably more stressful due to how much biological information that you may not totally care to know is included with/before the psych-specific things. Also the on call hours for residents aren't very forgiving. But you may do more research and papers in certain psychology programs which might not be your forte.
@kaytlyn22467 жыл бұрын
R.Jonathan Tan Psychiatrists go to med school and become doctors who do things like write prescriptions for antidepressants etc. Psychologists go to a phd program and usually go into academia/research or clinical work. Clinical psychologists perform assessments, diagnoses, therapy, etc. but in most states cannot prescribe medication as they are not medical doctors.
@ericbarnes87 жыл бұрын
I'm stoked! I hope this channel takes off
@animemangaluv137 жыл бұрын
AS A PSYCH MAJOR I'M SO EXCITED
@lily141307 жыл бұрын
Yay! So many new awesome things coming out... new Crash Courses, new SciShow channel... :D
@user678_oo57 жыл бұрын
i was psyched when they announced this new channel because im really into psychology and also studying neuroscience in uni. i just wish he doesn't talk as fast as he does lmaooo
@stanleyklein5245 жыл бұрын
Neuroscience typically is not psychology. It is 2nd tier neuroanatomy (at best).
@gibbsm4 жыл бұрын
Neuroscience is a real science, psychology isn't, it's a social science that borrows things from 'hard' science.
@lauracronbungusman15827 жыл бұрын
Im very excited about whats yet to come on this channel!
@sophias82637 жыл бұрын
This is amazing. I study psychology at university and I'm constantly having to validate my degree as a science! Incidentally this show is a great way for me to just go over some modules that I'm taking, so that's pretty cool. Thanks SciShow Psych team!
@gibbsm4 жыл бұрын
You should, it's all verbal based and pretty much guess work.
@sr.mental58762 жыл бұрын
Psychology is not a science. It has value but truly it is not a scientific endeavour.
@sasanmers9529 Жыл бұрын
I would say psychology is a combination of philosophy and science. I also think psychology is limited because there are many variables in the brain that we cannot get access to. They are hidden and cannot undergo the scientific method in order to formulate a justified conclusion like the science of physics, chemistry, or biology. What is more, it can sometimes lead to pseudoscience much easier than the 3 branches of science that I mentioned above. Perhaps, as science gets narrowed down to small branches, it would be that the chances to explain a natural phenomenon through scientific approach seems to be analyzed more easily than to only use a branch of science as a whole for the same reason.
@judetong9614Ай бұрын
Psychology is a combination of physiology and philosophy.
@sasanmers9529Ай бұрын
Can you explain why psychology is considered a science? I’m trying to understand how psychology can be scientific if we cannot see the psyche or directly test it using the scientific method!
@BLooDCoMPleX7 жыл бұрын
Congrats on the new channel. Anything that destroys pseudo-science bullshit is fine in my book.
@solitarynerdette7 жыл бұрын
the visuals in this vid are really helpful for me to understand the subject matter and ideas discussed, thank you keep up the good work! :)
@Richensmom7 жыл бұрын
As a Psychology student I love your Crash course videos (Visual learner) I am sure these are equally good. In fact I loved your chemistry videos on foods as well and was surprised at the wide variety of topics offered. But I digress. This argument is why many college Psych depts. are changing the name to "Department of psychological science's." "Psychology studies a full range of human and non human behavior with the techniques of science..applications derived from this knowledge are scientifically based." (Stanovich 2013: How to think Straight about Psychology). It amazes me how many people argue its scientific basis but then look at the erroneous betrayals in movie, and self help books. The main source of faulty insight into the field unless you take a psych course.
@markplimsoll Жыл бұрын
Bulloney, a liar, no understanding of real science, or self-medicating for self-diagnosed disorder? Evidence for Higgs Boson came almost immediately after turning on Cern Switzerland's Large Hadron Colider in 2010, built for the international physics community for $14 billion on confidence in the math from the 1960s. What does Psychology give us? Pop-psy fads, currently "narcissist" and "narcissism." The REALLY UGLY TRUTH: Psycholgy gave USA three Mass Histerias; Satanic Killings Alien Abductions, and Hypnotic Regression of adults to "recover" parental child abuse, putting innocent grandparents in jail. Laws still on the books against this witchdoctoring. In college, those who cannot handle math and real science opt for psychology, to become "therapists" with no adequate training, no professional guidelines, no supervision nor supervising agency, and NO ACCOUNTABILITY. Yet we let Courts pimp them for "expert opinion" hearsay?!? Google "Is psychology science?" RESULT: Why psychology is not considered a science? "Because psychology often does not meet the five basic requirements for a field to be considered scientifically rigorous: clearly defined terminology, quantifiability, highly controlled experimental conditions, reproducibility and, finally, predictability and testability. Aug 13, 2013"
@PsychologywithDrJessica5 жыл бұрын
Love this! Thank you so much for creating SciShow Psych!
@SteepDescent7 жыл бұрын
I like the dig at the end: "hard evidence", because he knows that psychology isn't a hard science.
@prairiewolfo92745 жыл бұрын
SteepDescent A shrink said to me, "All religion is superstitious rubbish, meant for the ignorant and cowardly." I asked what psychology is and he said, "Observing patients' reactions to certain situations so you can trick them into doing what you want." I said religion meant observing the universe so that you can find out how it works, where it came from and where it is going; but he said that this was science. Since he'd excluded himself from a situation that entails a consequence (good or bad) for every act, he'd inadvertently excluded psychology from the realm of science. Psychology can't gain the status of a science while psychologists hold tenets like, "I don't count;" or, "Equations such as x^2+1=0 are unsolvable.
@db14165 жыл бұрын
@@prairiewolfo9274 except religion just claims it doesnt prove anything,just saying god did it doesnt explain how he did it or that he did it in the first place.
@prairiewolfo92745 жыл бұрын
DarkBoy 141 If God is defined as the source (creator) of the universe, as Leibniz had it, then it is axiomatic that He did it and this requires no further proof. How He did it would become the subject of one's own considerations. Psychologists are cynically dismissive of religion and so miss the precept that effort comes before result. Any fool can see that Noah's ark is scientifically impossible, but they would rather use this as a reason to disregard the moral inconvenience of religion than do the hard work of sitting down and working out an interpretation that is both possible and highly likely. Quite a few problems in mathematics are only solved on the basis of probability, but if you insist on 0.999 as your probability goal you are all but dealing in fact. Seen from this point of view, none of the real sciences contradict religion; a little effort can reconcile every aspect of religion with modern discoveries. God wouldn't be much of a friend or benefactor if He insisted we should put the blood of a sacrificial lamb on the front door during an epidemic when a modern vaccine exists. In the scientific age, God can be the light that guides the thinking and research of the innovators. Psychologists are welcome to keep their immoral darkness.
@db14165 жыл бұрын
@@prairiewolfo9274 First of all,not all psychologists think like this. Second,no science doesnt necessarily contradict the god concept,but it does contradict the bible,logical thinking contradicts the bible.The fact that you have to perform mental gymnastics to make the bible work in the modern age,is evidence to suggest it wasnt divinely inspired.You can of course believe in any god you like and be a scientists,if your research stands up to scrutiny,good job and glad to have you.I just dont see why i should be a deist since a deistic god cannot be proven and i have no requirement to believe it,unlike newtonian phyisics,special relativity,evolution etc.
@Sgt-Gravy7 жыл бұрын
what are the definitions or differences between hypothesis, theory, & laws when it comes to science?
@AbCDef-zs6uj5 жыл бұрын
Perhaps a more interesting question is whether computer science is actually a science. Like mathematics, it's based more around deductive reasoning than empirical observation. And like engineering, there's a lot more "creating solutions to problems" than "discovering truths about the natural world".
@erical18084 жыл бұрын
As somebody going into computer science, I don't consider it a science. Personally I see it as applied math. Computer science is fundamentally based upon branches of mathematics such as discrete math, linear algebra, boolean algebra, graph theory, combinatorics, and others. Whereas for engineering, it's essentially an applied science because it uses our knowledge in physics, chemistry, and biology to solve problems.
@Robynsonfire7 жыл бұрын
I'm so excited for this channel!
@steamcleana_69187 жыл бұрын
Cool shirt hank
@HarukiMiyazawi7 жыл бұрын
I like this channel. It will fill in the gap that crash course philosophy left.
@drellick14797 жыл бұрын
Thank you Hank!!! At my university it is considered under the arts programs. So hearing someone agree with my assertion that it is a science is very nice.
@DoorSCARF7 жыл бұрын
maths is a Bachelor of Arts too apparently...
@pastelab7 жыл бұрын
We are *psyched* to learn more!
@katyjans957 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I will be receiving my Bachelor's of Science in Psychology this May and I get this all of the time. I was once told by a professor, "I find it funny that people call psychology, anthology, and many other sciences 'soft sciences' when really they are some of the hardest things to test."
@lostthepirate63117 жыл бұрын
Katy Janssen +
@Krrypton7 жыл бұрын
They call them "soft" sciences because their methodology and objectivity are, as a rule, lax or lacking.
@reds7vn6447 жыл бұрын
Katy Wayant Psychology is pure and 100 percent BS... A team of 270 scientists tried reproducing 100 psychology and social science studies that had been published in three top peer-reviewed U.S. journals in 2008. Just 39 percent came out with same results as the initial reports, said the findings in the journal Science. This is why you can go to one psychiatrist or psychologist and get a diagnosis and then turn around and go to a completely different one and get a different diagnosis and then turn around and do the same thing with another one and get a different diagnosis yet again. They're never going to come back and say the same thing all three. I'm actually done this same story same emotion same Expressions body language, and in six instances I got six different diagnosis. I did this over the span of a month with military psychiatrist and VA psychiatrist. It's all opinion that's all it is nothing more they sit there they listen they observe and they say you do this because of this and well you have these feelings are these emotions or outbursts because of this. In reality they have no clue and just SWAG it. For those of you that don't know what SWAG is Scientific Wild Ass Guess. But what they all have in common is their pill-pushers medicate medicate medicate is there matra.
@parsen26857 жыл бұрын
RED S7VN so the mental health professionals who you visited had different diagnoses and explanations? Different psyhologists/psychiatrists have different schools of thought, so your problem really isn’t a big issue. It’s quite common. Stick to one that helps you the most. Don’t mind the diffences, mind the outcomes they give you and which is the best suited for you.
@reds7vn6447 жыл бұрын
Erosen Sendo If it were an actual science the diagnosis would be the same. Like cancer or the flu modern medicine is able to diagnose across the board. But mental health is merely a field of opinions, guessing and nothing more.
@laurak58387 жыл бұрын
Yay! It's finally here!
@sofialopez42055 жыл бұрын
You helped me with my ethics and NOW PSYCHOLOGY I don’t deserve this 😂😂🙏
@sully426827 жыл бұрын
I have to take a psychology course over my summer 'break'. I will definitely be taking advantage of this channel before then.
@9rumpole7 жыл бұрын
YES IT IS A BLOODY SCIENCE! 2nd year psych student
@9rumpole7 жыл бұрын
I just love that Scishow psych liked that ^ hoping this will help with my course haha
@ErisofSpace7 жыл бұрын
I'm a physics major and love to annoy students of the "softer" sciences, but yeah, Psych is a science (even if you might get away with less math) Good luck with your studies!
@9rumpole7 жыл бұрын
trust me... there's lots of math involved, mostly statistics though
@frankschneider61567 жыл бұрын
+Harry Davis Yes some parts of it indeed qualify as scientific and are pretty hard, but a significant amount of the papers written (more than in comparable "hard" sciences) are junk science of people not understanding that a correlation in sample size of 5 doesn't say anything.
@9rumpole7 жыл бұрын
I do not think any paper with a sample size of just 5 would receive any academic backing, the process of writing dissertations/thesis' are much the same among the social sciences and the natural sciences I believe.
@mahdizamani5379 ай бұрын
"After observing patterns in human behavior, psychologists usually develope specific, testable hypothesis about why that behavior happens" Meanwhile: "Jung described the animus as the unconscious masculine side of a woman, and the anima as the unconscious feminine side of a man, each transcending the personal psyche. Jung's theory states that the anima and animus are the two primary anthropomorphic archetypes of the unconscious mind, as opposed to the theriomorphic and inferior function of the shadow archetypes. He believed they are the abstract symbol sets that formulate the archetype of the Self."
@PrayerSoldiers3 жыл бұрын
As someone who's passionate about psychology 💚🧠. The fact that this question is asked makes me feel a bit uneasy. Anyone else relate?
@mikewilliams60253 жыл бұрын
Maybe your passion should make you feel uneasy.
@atiger47163 жыл бұрын
If you could explore other true science based areas, like mathematics, physics, you would inmediatly realize that psychology is not a science a all. I am very interested in human mind so I enjoy investigating these areas, I hope we have in the future a better tool for undestarding human mind, like neuroscience.
@PrayerSoldiers3 жыл бұрын
@@atiger4716 do you believe that psychology is important even if it not a science?
@atiger47163 жыл бұрын
@@PrayerSoldiers Yes, It is for sure! To me there are several ways to understand ourself, if we are looking for answers we shouldn't put any knowledge off.
@iltoni68953 жыл бұрын
@@PrayerSoldiers psychology and psychoanalysis are real and valid, and I know it helps a lot of people, but it's not a science
@animejune56277 жыл бұрын
Could you do each mental disorder individually and debunk some common misconceptions about them?
@R4mzyCoZa7 жыл бұрын
0:04 For a moment there I thought Hank had tricked me...
@mickeymoose6367 жыл бұрын
I cant be the only one who really wants this to be renamed PsyShow
@kamikuru53985 жыл бұрын
Psychology isn't a science it's much more of a social science and or pseudoscience of Art
@franzjoseph1505 жыл бұрын
agreed
@JaxsonGalaxy7 жыл бұрын
I'm super psyched to be here!
@FreakbeatJaime7 жыл бұрын
Final year psych student here - just finished my 12000 word research project. if someone wants to say psychology isn't a science they can read through my method section and painfully long results section that is full of statistics and quantitative data analysis.
@HoD999x7 жыл бұрын
humans are to complex to be the target of a real science. you can take them apart and study their organs, cells etc., you can study numbers, atoms, molecules, machines... but not humans as a whole if psychology were a real science, you'd be able to make accurate predictions about individuals that non psychologists cannot do, which you can't. i can go to a mathematican/software engineer and challenge him. i can say "develop a function that always finds the shortest way in a maze", but i can't go to a psychologist and say "develop a method to make people stop smoking but so that they never start again" if you really knew enough about the human mind, you should be able to do that, but you can't, so either your knowledge is lacking, or there is simply no way to do it, which defeats the point of trying to study the mind/brain the way psychologists do it (at least as far as i understand - psychotherapy seems to be extremely ineffective compared to let's say vaccines)
@vaibhavgupta207 жыл бұрын
Jaime can you send me a PDF link or something?
@Leo-pw3kf7 жыл бұрын
Jaime don't fall for the "numbers = science" trap. There is great value in qualitative understanding.
@jamiewatson45947 жыл бұрын
Jaime i feel your pain. I don't think im capable of writing informally or in 1st person for an assignment again
@SpeedOfTheEarth7 жыл бұрын
Jaime +
@RedwoodGeorge7 жыл бұрын
I'm not disputing your point at all, just sharing my experience - I went to a very technical / hard science college (MIT) and there psychology was considered a humanity. Rather than study history or literature, I could satisfy my humanities requirements by taking psychology classes (which I did). I always thought it was a little odd but since I was more interested in psych than history, why not?
@emmajackson99055 жыл бұрын
Here at Oxford experimental psychology is in the medical sciences division :)
@Elamith7 жыл бұрын
I disagree. I personally think that Psychology is a pseudo science, because it relies so much on induction. It is, like Hank says, a matter of personal opinion to define science though, so I won't say that my definition of science is the absolute right one. I just think that Psychology is to different from subjects that I consider science, like Math and Physics, to be a proper science. This does not mean the Psychology is invaluable or anything. It is a very important subject, and I love how SciShow teaches the world about it. :)
@lostthepirate63117 жыл бұрын
Anders B. Clausen I appreciate your ability to explain your disagreement in a coherent and civic way, and I hope that you enjoy the new channel!
@ayeansh2 жыл бұрын
Just came across this playlist and channel, didnt expect to find Hank here haha.
@tomw75513 жыл бұрын
In your conclusion you basically state 'psychology is limited by not being empiracle (therefore unscientific) but its a science
@kurkcalibara6327 жыл бұрын
I can't wait until they talk about the MBTI. It's a goldmine of information and debatable topics. Would make for a really nice video