On the other hand it could also be argued that mainstream experimental psychology has lagged behind some of the radical changes that have occurred in the other sciences. This is exemplified in the accreditation guidelines of the Australian Psychological Society, which frown on the inclusion of psychoanalytic, humanistic or applied subjects in undergraduate psychology courses. The Subject Book is divided into five topics. The first, The Standard View of Science, introduces the traditional approach to conceptualising science and some of the problems that have been identified with it this century. We can have objective and faithful knowledge of this world.
Observational statements make factual claims about the real world.
The first makes an ontological claim, while the remainder represent epistemological claims. Ontology deals with questions about existence and the nature of reality , epistemology deals with questions about knowledge . The second claim, about the possibility of veridical observation, is relevant to all species, human and non-human. It is essentially a claim about the capacities and limitations of an organism's perceptual apparatus. This determines what it is possible for us to know about the world.