what scientific about behavioural science?

Answer 1

The fact that it's making generalisations about certain behavioural traits, just like scientists make generalisations about other things...

Answer 2

Behavioural science pretends to be scientific because regularities can be described between cause and effect or (c.f. Skinner) stimulus and response. There are two problems with this. Firstly, it leaves out the need for an observer to interpret the behaviour. Secondly, it lacks explanatory theory in terms of mental processes or brain processes. So in short behavioural science is based on an outdated view of science when compared with cognitive science and/or neuroscience.

Answer 3

The experiments are reproducible and produce measurable results.
The experimental group are compared to a control group in order to show that it is the independent variable which has had the effect.
Because they are reproducible, other scientist can check the method and results.
Confounding variables are controlled for and results can be assessed using psychological statistical equations which take account of such things as sample size and variation within populations.

Hope that helps!

Answer 4

Difference between behavioural sciences and social sciences

The term behavioural sciences is often confused with the term social sciences. Though these two broad areas are interrelated and study systemic processes of behaviour, they differ on their level of scientific analysis of various dimensions of behaviour. Behavioural sciences essentially investigates the decision processes and communication strategies within and between organisms in a social system. This involves fields like psychology and social neuroscience, among others. Social sciences study the structural-level processes of a social system and its impact on social processes and social organization. They include fields like sociology, economics, history, public health, anthropology, and political science.

Categories of behavioural sciences

Behavioural sciences includes two broad categories: Neural-Decision sciences and Social-Communication sciences. Decision sciences involves those disciplines primarily dealing with the decision processes and individual functioning used in the survival of organism in a social environment. These include psychology, cognitive organization theory, psychobiology, management science, operations research (not to be confused with business administration) and social neuroscience. Communication sciences include those fields that studies the communication strategies used by organisms and its dynamics between organisms in an environment. These include fields like Anthropology, Organizational behaviour, Organization science, Sociology and Social networks.

Behavioural sciences as integrative sciences

Neural-Decision sciences form the bridge between the behavioural sciences and Cognitive and natural sciences through creating theories that account for the interaction of bio-physical systems and cognitive processes in decision making of the organism. Social-Communication sciences form the link between behavioural sciences and social sciences through the interaction of individual cognitive and communication strategies and social-structural processes.

Thus behavioural sciences lies at the crossroads between the natural sciences and the social sciences, linking broad areas of scientific exploration.

Answer 5

Any area of study is scientific if it seems possible to study it scientifically e.g. by experiment (Physics), or by observation (cosmology), and if sincere efforts are made to carry out experiments or observations, and if someone tries to explain the results.

Answer 6

good question, it's all subjective

how can science measure the mind, they don't even know what it is, or where it is

Answer 7

the approch to the suject and the way it is investigated and recorded.

Answer 8

observation method

Answer 9

it's predictability