Untestable Concepts

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What did the philosopher of science, Karl Popper, argue?

The psychodynamic approach doesn't meet the scientific criterion of falsification

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What is psychodynamic approach not open to?

Empirical testing and the possibility of being disproved.

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What makes Freud's concepts, such as the id, difficult and impossible to test?

Freud's concepts are said to occur at an unconscious level.

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According to Popper, what does it mean for this approach?

It affords the psychodynamic approach the status of pseudoscience rather than real science.