ABSTRACT
Psychology's academicians are conflicted in regard to the minimal core shown in Appendix A, despite their rejection of it when they voted collectively as members of cogdop. Specifically, when invited to publicly affirm that the doctoral psychology programs of study in their individual institutions do include all the components listed here in Appendix A, the chairpersons of the country's departments of psychology, including psychologists most prestigious, have in fact voluntarily listed their own psychology department in the annual, jointly published aaspb—National Register edition of Designated Doctoral Programs in Psychology. The latter conviction provides validation for the belief that different predoctoral curriculums for specialties in psychology already exist in most of this country's university departments of psychology. Psychology clearly has been moving toward de jure recognition of specialists through the establishment of such bodies as the American Board of Professional Psychology.
