1. What do you consider to be the proper subject matter of psychology? 2. What methods should psychology use to approach the subjects it studies? 3. What do you expect will be your most lasting contribution to the field of psychology? 4.
What do you consider to be an appropriate role for the field of psychology in society? 5. What particular personal challenges or characteristics, or conditions in the society and the profession of psychology, had the greatest impact upon your development as a psychologist?What do you consider to be the proper subject matter of psychology?The proper subject matter for psychology would help to explain our past, as well as assist in predicting our future. Evolutionary psychology (EP) will be the standard someday in our lifetimes. The reason is when we look at what we were it allows us to decode our past which, will help us correctly write our future. We may be decedents of animals but that does not mean that we have to constantly act as if we are uncivilized.
I have always felt that my heart has been in biology, and as an evolutionary psychologist I understand that behavior is just an adaptation of body to ensure survival. This places EP more into the scope of biology than psychology.
