The Biological Perspective
Psychology is a social science. To most people, this translates into a ‘soft science’. And I can’t blame them, it is indeed difficult to establish strictly measurable criteria in psychology. But this is not to say that psychology can’t accomplish this. In fact, psychology is accomplishing this through neuroscience, computational modeling, biology, and vigorous empirical testing of psychological frameworks. In this last regard, it is quite useful to have a biology minor. Learning about the biological frameworks explaining the natural world has made me see that the same way biology is nothing without chemistry, and chemistry is nothing without physics, psychology is nothing without biology. So informing psychology with biological phenomena is not only useful, but necessary.
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