Psychology, like other disciplines, uses the scientific method to acquire knowledge and uncover truths, but here is why we still ask experts for information and rely on intuition.
When we ask experts, scholars, and specialists, we gain knowledge without exhausting time and energy.Victoria/Pixabay
Going back in time a little bit more, television, radio, and movie theaters were avant garde. Entertainment, current events, and new ideas were spread on a mass scale using these innovations. Still, they were not interactive. You could never ask an old vacuum-tube television to pull up the funniest cat. Now, imagine a world in which none of these exists. For 99% of human existence, this was precisely the world we inhabited.
In the 1800s, Gregor Mendel postulated the existence of small units for transmitting genetic information even though he’d never seen them. For years, before minusculewere eventually seen under high-powered microscopes or astronomical black holes were observed in deep space, people could choose to accept the word of the scientists. Nonexpert laypeople had no other options. Either we trust the experts, or we just make up wild explanations on our own.
The intuitive approach looks more magical than it probably is because the ideas that seem to pop into consciousness suddenly are usually coming from minds that have spent days, if not years, on a particular subject. Neither you nor I will wake up tomorrow with the formula for cold fusion, but a physicist who spent astudying it might. The same can be said for mathematicians, singer-songwriters, and anyone who is dedicated to the pursuit of their passions.
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