falsifiability

Examples of falsifiability in the following topics:

• Psychology and the Scientific Method: From Theory to Conclusion

  • Across all scientific disciplines, the major precepts of the scientific method are verifiability, predictability, falsifiability, and fairness.
  • Falsifiability refers to whether a hypothesis can disproved.
  • For a hypothesis to be falsifiable, it must be logically possible to make an observation or do a physical experiment that would show that there is no support for the hypothesis.
  • It also allows theories to be tested and validated instead of simply being conjectures that could never be verified or falsified.

• Evaluating the Humanistic Perspective on Personality

  • Because of the subjective nature of the study, psychologists still worry about the falsifiability of the humanistic approach.

• Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality

  • In fact, as researchers began to take a more scientific look at his ideas, they found that several were unable to be supported: in order for a theory to be scientifically valid, it must be possible to disprove ("falsify") it with experimental evidence, and many of Freud's notions are not falsifiable.

• Evaluating the Psychodynamic Approach to Personality

  • He did an entirely qualitative study of the human mind, resulting in theories that were not falsifiable, but rather, open for interpretation.