Austin Fontaine 
Megan Novelli John Stuart Mill believed psychology could be studied as a science. Psychology can be tested, hypothesized, and analyzed. If you are in counseling with a client you have gotten to know very well, you can predicted fairly well how they will react to different circumstances. Human beings have been found to react similarly in many situations, which is seen in primary laws. Psychologists can recognize these things and apply them to each of their clients to better understand and help those they work with. However, there are always those few exceptions. People whom react poorly to everything in their life that is out of the ordinary, good or bad. Or those who show little emotion as if they just don’t seem to care. Or there could be something randomly impacting the client that was completely unexpected.
Also, look back to all of the experiments done over the past centuries in psychology. Each one looking in to how the mind works and reacts in different situation. The mind can adapt to anything. It is how we prove our theories. Many psychologists today refer to different experiments performed to support their theories or arguments. These scientific experiments are what have allowed us to learn so much about what goes on in the mind of each person. Yes, the philosophers were brilliant and able to come up with many ideas that gave us insight in to the way human beings think. But it is the experiments that made these things clear and more defined.
It all can be explained and studied. People can talk about how they feel and how they react. There are many tests that can be done to observe and analyze the way the mind works. Though there are no absolutes, most of the things discovered work for the vast majority of people. That is why I agree that psychology can be studied as a science.
Earl Popp
1:42 pm, 09.20.10
I like this post. You are smart. With philosophy, I often find myself bogged with made up terms and categories, hypothetical examples, and I require time to digest material. With the advent of psychological experiments, I now can read a standardized report, check the alpha, and know that there is a correlation or not. Granted, it doesn’t explain everything, but it sure makes for a good science.
Ian Robertson
3:18 pm, 09.20.10
However, it seems lately that there is a more negative views in calling psychology, economics, sociology and other “social sciences” actual science. I wonder if there is merely a question of what is more prestigious, hard sciences or social/soft sciences. Physics, geology, chemistry can all be measured and are consistent, where human behavior is not. Psychiatry also seems to want to distance itself from psychology, because it can measure heart rates, neuron activity, and neurotransmitters and is not dependent on so much of the speculation that seems to prevalent in other branches of psychology. It’s interesting to see where the line is drawn in the future in what is call science and what is merely called scientific study.