According to philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn, scientific disciplines progress through periods of stable agreement punctuated by rapid revolutions. What term is used to describe the event where the dominant, universally accepted conceptual framework of a discipline is overthrown and replaced by a new, incompatible theoretical perspective?
Empirical transition
Paradigm shift
Falsification cycle
Hypothetico-deductive shift
47 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology How science works. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.