I've cleaned up the last several posts. If you can't debate in a civil manner, without making the posts personal, then bypass the topic.

Kim

"ology" means the study of. The definition of psychology is "study of the mind." It's the scientific study of animal and human behavior. It's a science because it uses the scientific study method.

It's not about rationalizing. It's about understanding our mind and behavior and why we do the things we do.

Really? What would you describe as the scientific study method?

I don't describe it. There are standard steps in the method.

Observation/Research
Hypothesis
Prediction
Experimentation
Conclusion

Not all psychology would be a science as many people have a BA in psychology. Neurology would truly be the science of the brain. Behavior and such are not consistent and really wouldn't have the reproducability or consistency needed for true scientific experiments.

Why did you say you don't describe it? You just did.

neuro = nerves and ology = the study of

Neurology is the scientific study of the nervous system - brain, spinal cord, nerves.

I understand what you're saying about neurology though.

They do true scientific experiments though. They have observe and make a hypothesis and come up with conclusions - all the steps. No science is an exact science that's why they're called an "ology" - the study of. Science is constantly changing.

I didn't describe it in my own words, Jeannie. I just named the steps. That's what I meant.

So if those are the standard steps or the rules and they are not in your own words, then who wrote them?

And do you agree with them?

Am I wrong to assume that you agree with them and accept them as fact?

The full episode of 9/11 explained on South Park.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s10e09-mystery-of-the-urinal-deuce

they teach everyone that in your first year of college.... it is a very standard procedure...

They? Who are "they?" Someone must of thought it up.

And does everyone who goes to college just accept and believe and agree with everything "they" teach ???

If so, why? And if so, why do you not know who made those standard steps up to begin with? Was it a panel or commission? Who is the final authority on those steps? Who wrote the book? Was it inspired by God?

Is it a universal law?

Does anyone ever question who "THEY" are? If you are going to quote someone or something as a gospel fact or "standard step" I think you should at least know who or where it comes from.

wow...

They were explained to me in all of my college science and psychology classes.

Those are the standard tests/steps for all science experiments. Them's the rules.

Here's what Wiki says about it:

The Oxford English Dictionary says that scientific method is: "a method or procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses."

And:

Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), 965–1039 Iraq. The Arab scholar who lived during the Islamic golden age is considered by some to be the father of modern scientific methodology.

And:

Scientific methodology has been practiced in some form for at least one thousand years.

More here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

Thems the rules.

That's like: We do it this way because that's the way it has always been done.

That's like: We do it this way because that's the way it has always been done.

It doesn't matter who invented it, or who made the rules because they have been around so long.... I guess everyone forgot.

Maybe God wrote the rules for the scientific method. Now that would be ironic.

KYLE!!!!

Ology is the study of but not necessarily considered a science
In modern use science more often refers to a way of pursuing knowledge, not only knowledge itself. It is often treated as synonymous with natural and physical science and thus restricted to those branches of study that relate to the phenomena of the material universe and their laws, sometimes with implied exclusion of pure mathematics.