Similarities &amp Essay Example

style="text-align: justify">Pseudoscience is literally, a fake body of knowledge. True science relies on the scientific method, the process of observing and collecting evidence to test a hypothesis and formulate a theory. A “hard” science, such as biology, collects this evidence through true experiments, in which independent variables are manipulated by the experimenter in order to cause a change in a dependent variable. Psychology is typically regarded as “soft” science, because many of the variables are not directly observable. Psychology is a science of the mind; variables include emotions and behaviour. Psychology uses experimental methods to study human behaviour and thought processes, and that is what makes psychology a “soft” science. Psychiatry and Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience is a body of knowledge, methodology, belief or practice that is claimed to be scientific or made appear to be, but does not adhere to the scientific methods. Psychiatry is a field of mental medicine aiming to study, prevent, and treat mental disorders in humans. It has been described as an intermediary between the world from a social context and the world from the perspective of those who are mentally ill.