Can applied psychology obtain 'scientific facts'?

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How can applied psychology be "scientific" without the control over extraneous variables offered by laboratory experimentation?

-- Tim Desai (User502@Hotmail.com), November 27, 2001

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The Boulder scientist-practitioner model is based on the assumption that in applied psychology we apply what we know based on experiments in the laboratory and perhaps on qualitative research as well. But why ask applied psychology to be 'scientific' at all? The field of psychology has broader paradigms than merely that of scientific psychology.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), November 27, 2001.

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