For AQA A-Level Psychology students, the features of science (objectivity and the empirical method, replicability, falsifiability, theory construction and hypothesis testing, and paradigms) are part of Research Methods, specification section 4.2.3.1. The question of whether psychology really is a science also feeds into your Issues and Debates essays, for example free will and determinism, where the specification highlights the scientific emphasis on causal explanations. Whet