Sadly, I agree....
To add to some controversy, I think the downhill slide started back when
APS broke off from APA - and APA made it pretty clear they really didn't
give a damn about the traditional experimental core that at one time WAS
psychology.
This is becoming increasingly apparent as the new generation of clinical
psychologists do everything they can to eliminate hard science courses from
the graduate curriculum. To them, psychology has never been anything buy a
clinical field, and they see no reason to preserve the "irrelevant" basic
experimental content.
Sorry - just venting - but I am getting increasingly tired of having to
justify the "relevance" experimental work.
-- Jim
At 11:36 AM 2/26/01 -0800, Harry Avis wrote:
>It is disappearing. Biopsych people call themselves neuroscientists.
>Learning and memory people call themselves cognitive scientists.
>Evolutionary (used to be called comparative) psychology is sucking up
>other disciplines like a vacuum, while the clinicians have taken over the
>name "psychologist" like the Evangelicals took over the word "Christian"
>The term "psychologist" now has a distinct connotative meaning that is far
>from the original.
