The name given to a branch of psychology which relies on experimentation to address research problems. First used to indicate the emergence of a distinct scientific discipline of psychology at the end of the 19th-c, the term came to refer to the study of mental phenomena by experimental methods in contrast to sheer speculation (armchair psychology). It is now used for an approach which relies principally on laboratory experiments.
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Experimental psychology is an approach to psychology that treats it as one of the natural sciences, and therefore assumes that it is susceptible to the experimental method.
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