Should Psychology be accepted as a science?

Anything to add?

It totally depends on the aspects of psychology you study. Some theories in psychology are just that, theories. They don't have scientific backing. However, reputable evidence from studies into neurotransmitters in the brain has been very beneficial for developing treatments for depression, for example. Psychology is quite closely linked with biology, however as I already stated, it depends on what you actually study.

People who have no idea what the subject entails and assume it's about society and nothing more are simply wrong. People are looked at on an individual basis and as part of society, not one or the other. There are so many unanswered questions so it would be silly to leave out certain methods considered "non-scientific" if they are the most effective for that particular research.

If all you studied were social aspects of psychology, it is a social science. If you concentrated on biological and cognitive psychology, it would be a science.

And behaviourist

No.

You know that you're going to have to back that up somehow.

He thinks more highly of sticking electrodes in your brain and monitoring her responses to companionship. So what, you think that cognitive psychology is okay? But social psychology is hokum?

Look, psychology is broad. Some is science, some is social science. You can't talk about it all in one brush stroke.

Regrettably Feynmann once defined science as a subject that relies on observation and experiment, so I suppose it qualifies. He did go on to stress that being a science isn't necessarily a merit as some "sciences" were simply less rigorous(see:Psychology) than others

Although maybe Social Science is more appropriate?

He's laughing because what you said is a contradiction to what Psychology is, so it was extremely evident you'd never studied it.

See Cognitive Approach.

So answer the question then. Why does the study of the mind get its own subject? How is it different from the study of the heart or the lungs or the kidneys? Why isnt it just biology?

To justify psychology as its own subject, there would need to be something special about the mind that gives it a pedestal. If that pedestal isnt there, psychology slips into biology.

Psychology doesnt study human behaviour. The brain therefore the mind is the most important part of the body

Agreed.

It is a Science of the mind.
It uses Scientific methods in other words uses research and empirical data to answer theories, make predictions and try to explain a phenomena.

Science of the mind is neuroscience.
If you draw direct and logical parallels (that can be used to make predictions that are consistently true) between behavior and the structure of the brain thats science.

Give us some examples of this in as or a2 psycology.

No, that's not true. The scientific method does indeed rely on creating predictions that can then be tested to form theories, but there's no requirement that that has to be about the structure of the brain. Simply put, empiricism is a key tenet of science and psychology.

However, seeing as you've asked for a logical parallel between behaviour and brain structure, I can give you one from A2 AQA Psychology. Behaviour implies that romantic love is homogeneous across all cultures; this led Aron et al. (2005) to predict that there may be a brain region associated with romantic love, that has evolved for this purpose. When they conducted fMRI scans on people who claimed to experience romantic love being shown pictures of their partners/ talking about their partners, the ventral tegmental area consistently lit up on the scans, supporting the prediction. Example of empiricism.