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Psychology as a positive science or pure science

Psychology is not a normative science but a positive science because it emphasizes the search for truth and study facts of behavior.

1. It tries to make objective study of behavior by using the method of direct observation and experimentation. It believes in visible, tangible and audible experiences of man’s behavior as exhibited in a given situation.

2. It establishes facts by objective proof and evidence.

3. Psychology as a science of behavior studies behavior of all organisms by developing, laws, theories, principles, techniques and methods in observable, verifiable and predictable manner.

4. It observes the present behavior of the living organisms and establishes facts about them.

With the establishment of Psychological laboratory, the experimental group of psychologists has been more enthusiastic in studying behavior with that of the spirit of physical and chemical sciences. They believe that every aspects of human behavior can be objectively studied and assessed. Psychology has truly become a positive, objective and experimental science today.

J.B Watson,” Psychology is the positive science of behavior”.

James S. Ross,” Psychology is not concerned with aims, it is a positive science not a normative science, and that is to say it deals with facts as they are, not as they ought to be.


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