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Idk if I said this before but psychology borrows a lot of resources from science to help understand it to the fullest. Kinda like math. It's a great tool to have in the professional field of health and what not. Psychology will always be super important for that reason and why it's so fun to learn about
Other sciences do that too though. Biology borrows from Chemistry and Physics. Biology, as for all other sciences, also use resources from math.
Vehicles need a knowledge of physics and chemistry. Most people wouldn't call a car designer a scientist. The thing that stops psychology in my eyes to being a full on science is that a lot of it's theories are just not at a point where we can fully understand the concepts behind our brains and human experience to a t due to a lot of unexpected elements of bias and what not
The thing about psychological experiments is that they're a bit different from traditional scientific ones. In science a theory is made by using old facts to create new facts. They then do a test to a subject to either prove or disprove their theory. And then they do it again constantly. Experimenting with people is quite different because humans are harder to be constant with. If I were to ask you a question right now and another question in 5 minutes you will most likely feel different. You become a different person within that time span. A lot of experiments will get affected by this change of behavior.
You don't call them scientists because cars aren't an occurrence in the natural world. Not fully understanding the subject can be said for many aspects of human biology. There is a lot we don't understand about the body, especially when it comes to diseases or why the body reacts the way it does, but that doesn't make it any less of a science than more well-understood portions. There are many aspects of DNA and genetics that are just hypothesis, but that doesn't make Genetics a non-science field. There's a lot we don't understand about bacteria and viruses but that doesn't make microbiology any less of a science than something like anatomy. Something isn't science just because we understand it, what makes it science is the fact that we're making observations and tests on how it works.
Approaching something that is difficult to test on doesn't change it being science. Just because there are many factors that can affect an outcome doesn't mean it's not science. Testing humans when it comes to physical diseases also includes several factors and questionnaires and people potentially not being honest with their answers, but that wouldn't nvalidate epidemiology as a science. We don't understand a lot when it comes to animal behaviour but that doesn't mean natural science isn't a science.
Science is just making hypotheses and observations to get a better understanding of how things works. Science is not defined by how different or difficult experiments can be from one another, morbid it defined by how much we already know or what factors can affect what we're trying to learn.