Question

Explain why psychologists at the turn of the 20th century embraced an empirical approach to advance understanding about human behavior.

Answer 1

at the turn of the 20th century society was interested in pseudoscientific topics such as clairvoyance and telepathy. to establish the young field of psychology as a science, the early psychologists focused on behavior and mental processes that could be observed directly. by adopting an empirical approach, with its emphasis on direct observation and experimentation for answering questions, early psychologists were able to divorce psychology from pseudoscience