Characteristics of Psychological Science
(Summary of Stanovitch) 

1. Psychology progresses by investigating empirical problems
2. Psychologists propose testable hypothesis
3. The concepts in these hypothesis are operationally defined
4. Psychologists use many different empirical methods
5. Most conclusions are arrived at only after slowly accumulating data from many experiments
6. The behavioural principals eventually uncovered at are almost always probabilistic
7. Psychological data and theories are only acceptable after publication in peer reviewed scientific journals