<Tab/>Psychological research is scientific because of the procedures that take place. First of all, you need to start with a theory, an organized system of assumptions and principles that purports to explain a specified set of phenomena and their interrelationships. From a theory, a hypothesis develops which is a statement that predicts or accounts for a set of phenomena. Then a hypothesis lead to predictions about a situation. Operational definitions are precise words used in the hypothesis to describe the being. For example, anxiety. Also, a researcher must be skeptic w…
