AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Falsification Principle, proposed by Karl Popper, is a way of demarcating science from non-science. It suggests that for a theory to be considered scientific it must be able to be tested and conceivably proven false. For example, the hypothesis that “all swans are white, ” can be falsified by observing a black swan.

Detailed explanation-2: -Popper eventually developed his theory by abandoning the psychology of discovery and psychology of thinking-by giving priority to the study of logic over the study of subjective thought processes. Popper held a view that psychology cannot explain the growth of knowledge.

Detailed explanation-3: -In contrast to such paradigmatically scientific theories as GR, Popper argues that non-scientific theories such as Freudian psychoanalysis do not make any predictions that might allow them to be falsified. The reason for this is that these theories are compatible with every possible observation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Popper believed that psychoanalysis could not be falsified and was therefore not scientific. This much publicized view of Popper, uncritically accepted, often seems to be coupled with the assumption that it is also acceptable not to bother looking at the actual evidence.

Detailed explanation-5: -Falsifiability is a deductive standard of evaluation of scientific theories and hypotheses, introduced by the philosopher of science Karl Popper in his book The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934). A theory or hypothesis is falsifiable (or refutable) if it can be logically contradicted by an empirical test.