Because the establishment of a science needs empirical research, and psychological phenomena can be observed and analyzed through experiments, it also indicates that psychology is no longer a part of philosophy and can be systematically analyzed and studied like other sciences. Of course, psychology also has empirical analysis and speculation, but this is not the mainstream of psychology today.

1879, Feng Te, a famous German psychologist, established the first psychological laboratory in the world. People regard the establishment of this laboratory as a sign that psychology has left the embrace of philosophy and embarked on the road of independent development.

Extended data:

Psychological research adopts objective research methods. Several main research methods are:

1, observation method

That is to say, under natural conditions, the regularity of the emergence and development of psychological phenomena can be found by systematically observing the external activities that express psychological phenomena.

2. Psychological test methods

This is a method to test a certain psychological quality with a set of pre-standardized questions (scales)

3. Related methods

Relevance is a relationship between things. Many researches in psychology are looking for correlation, such as the relationship between people's socio-economic status and individual psychological development, and the relationship between certain personality traits and specific behaviors.

4. Experimental method

Observe a psychological phenomenon under controlled conditions.

5. Case law

It is mainly to conduct in-depth and detailed observation and research on one person or several people to find out the reasons that affect some behavioral and psychological phenomena.