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Sunday, November 7, 2010

How does Neuroscience help or hinder the credibility of psychology as a science?

Neuroscience helps the credibility of psychology as a science in numerous ways. To begin, neuroscience is more related to biology than to psychology, and biology has been recognized as a hard science. Because there is concrete evidence in the form of nerves, parts of the brain, and reflex reactions, it is hard to imply that neuroscience is based on ideas instead of factual information. Various experiments have been performed to find out which parts of the brain affect different aspects of human abilities such as speech, hearing, and even memory. The fact that some psychological ideas can now be backed up by scientific findings further proves that psychology is indeed a credible science.

(Charline)

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