Does psychology aim to seek understanding of the mind and the person, and their relationship to the real world?

I mean isn’t psychology a science?

thomas kuhn would claim that the scientific method is eventually gonna disappear

i have no clear definition of science which by to answer that

does psychology aim to seek understanding of the mind and the person, and their relationship to the real world? pretty sure yes

Tch he didn’t fall for it

I would say too :p

then again i do believe psychology is mostly a practice, meaning that they mostly learn how to treat people and give advice

the end goal is not to research, but to provide therapy

which i wouldn’t consider science

after all i study philosophy

i use they/them btw

That’s the same with all doctors i suppose

Depends on what kind of psychology is it

agree

same applies to engineers

Including doctor of philosophy :p

flees

not all psychologists/engineers are scientists, i suppose

soon.

Yes

but all programmers are scientists

I wouldn’t say so xd

webdevs are not real programmers prove me wrong

40% of programming involve debuging why something doesn’t work

sounds like scientific method lol

And the rest is figuring out why it does work xD

sounds like the scientific method ²

the rest is to get it working

sounds like engineering

get outta here

who cares if it works in practice

programmer: we don’t learn from our past

as long as the formal definitions match the rules!

99% of the time programmers give up figuring out why it does work as 90% of work still has to be done and the deadline is already in sight xD

facts