Some challenges in Psychology

My discipline, Psychology, has too many challenges that now is facing.

For example, in technology we have several issues about scientific area in our discipline. Psychology has two completely different paradigms: quantitative and qualitative. If we use quantitative paradigm, maybe we will use some technological methods. For example, if we want to know about memory and how does it work in humans, we have to use the quantitative paradigm and probably we will use some new technology such as electroencephalograms.

All of us know that science has the power of knowledge in its hands, but there are too many studies that criticize that paradigm and show how wrong they are. This show us that not all is good enough and of course, science has too keep improving itself and show us how good and useful it can be in different problems.

I think that social matters have to be the first challenge that psychology has to face. Our discipline studies humans, his behavior and mind, that’s why psychology has the power to change the society, because all of we (humans) are the society, and today we are not taking serious that problem. But that is not in our hands, today we don’t have the power to change our society like the way we want, because Psychology is not recognize as a serious discipline with the power to do that, and that is too sad, because we study humans, we know humans, we can predict human behavior, but we don’t have the power to make them to believe us.

Education and Psychology must to be lovers and they must to walk together and think together how to make them both better, like good couples. But, that is so far away from reality. Education has been a blind and death discipline, because they don’t take us seriously like we need. We have been produce a lot of knowledge that can be use in education, but education is a lonely discipline, they don't pay us attention, they need a good partner, they need psychology.

So, those are some issues and challenges that psychology has to face, for its good. We can make the world better, but the world has to allow us first to make that real.