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What is the importance of falsifiability criteria to psychology? Provide examples.

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Falsifiability can be defined as "the requirement that the test of a scienctific hypothesis can possibly show that the hypothesis is correct." It is a very important criterion to psychology. The field of psychology (as well as other sciences) work best by taking various theories and attempting to disprove them repeatedly. If the theory has not been shown ...

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