Proface

 I would be prepared to argue that theories which are known to be incorrect, which have been falsified or are doubtful, can also be scientific, for being scientific is not the same as being valid. A ticket for the theater can be absolutely valid and nonscientific. Herbart’s theory about feelings as the relations between ideas is absolutely false, but equally absolutely scientific. The goal and  cheap ghd hair straighteners means determine whether a theory is scientific and no other factors. That is why to say scientific psychology is equal to saying nothing or, more correctly, to saying simply psychology. It remains for us to accept this name. It perfectly well stresses what we want – the size and the content of our task. And it does not reside in the creation of a school next to other schools; it does not cover some part or aspect, or problem, or method of interpretation of psychology alongside analogous parts, schools, etc. We are talking about all of psychology, in its full capacity; about the only psychology which does not admit of another one. We are talking about the realization of psychology as a science

 Blonsky  uses the term scientific psychology in this sense. And he is entirely right. What we wanted to do, the meaning of our reform, the crux of our divergence with the empiricists, the basic character of our science, our ghd pink limited edition  goal and the size of our task, its content and the method of its fulfillment – is all expressed by this epithet. It would fully satisfy me if only it were not unnecessary. Expressed in its most correct form it clearly revealed that it cannot express anything more than is already contained in the word it predicates. After all, psychology is the name of a science and not of a theater piece or a movie. It cannot be anything other than scientific.

 Nobody would call the description of the sky in a novel astronomy. The name psychology is as little suited for the description of the thoughts of Raskol’nikov or the ravings of Lady Macbeth. Whatever describes the ghd pink orchid limited edition  mind in a nonscientific way is not psychology, but something else – whatever you like: advertising, review, chronicle, fiction, lyric poetry, philosophy, philistinism, gossip and a thousand other things besides. After all, the epithet scientific is not only applicable to Blonsky’s outline, but also to Muller’s investigations of memory, Kohler’s experiments with apes, Weber – Fechner’s theory about thresholds, Groos’ theory of play, Thomdike’s theory of training, Aristotle’s association theory, i.e., to everything in history and contemporaneity which belongs to science.