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> Before you make a predictable objection, remember that in real science, fields are united by theory, not divided. You are ignorant on the history of science.
by nessus42 14y ago
> Before you make a predictable objection, remember that in real science, fields are united by theory, not divided.
You are ignorant on the history of science. Read Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. It will set you straight.
> Scientific fields craft and then test falsifiable scientific theories, explanations. Cognitive psychology can only describe, a failing freely acknowledged by its practitioners.
You cherry pick your quotes. Cognitive psychology is just like any other science. It constructs models, uses those models to make predictions, and then performs empirical experiments to test the accuracy of the models.
If you don't understand that science is about models, then you don't understand science.