Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!drutx!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Intelligence Message-ID: <1130@peora.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 00:22:48 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1130 Posted: Sun Jun 30 00:22:48 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 08:04:29 EDT References:<443@unc.UUCP> <252@rti-sel.UUCP> <> <495@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <1116@peora.UUCP> <267@rti-sel.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 42 > The issue addressed in my response and my subsequent posting was a > biological/genetic one. How many psychologists have to take graduate > courses in organismal biology, genetics, and evolutionary theory to > get their degrees? An MS in clinical psychology does not necessarily Ah, here we get to the heart of the matter! It depends on where you went to college, of course; and that is what distinguishes the "good" from the "bad" colleges, I guess. Where I went to college (Davidson) the psychology majors were required to take biology. A good many of them took "The Sage"'s (Jerry Putnam) course "comparative anatomy," which covered what you call "evolutionary theory". This was because of something called "area requirements," designed to insure you were "well rounded". It was rumored that other colleges did not have these, but this was considered just incidental news. On the other hand, in those days I majored in "Biological Science," also called by the more sinister name of "Premedicine," and did things the opposite way; whereas I took many courses in what you call "organismal biology", genetics, and the above Putnam course, I also had to take Psychology courses. (But not enough for a major. I used up all my optional-type credits taking >>> English! <<<. This was so I would not end up writing like Talcott Parsons.) They always told us that the curriculum was "better" there than at other places, but I always figured that was just fallout from the "blue sky policy". I guess maybe not... I think any MS program that does not give its psychology students a good well-rounded background isn't doing a particularly good job... though it should have done it in the undergraduate days. So, I still stand by my position, too! It is like that Dr. Seuss story, in which the two creatures would not move left or right, and so were stuck. But that's OK... I am tired of arguing, and will just goto sleep here, standing in the pink arctic snow (the result of the cat in the hat I guess). -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 "Fheryl qnloernxf pebff bhe cngu, naq fgnl, znlor, njuvyr..."