Grand Issues of Psychology
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Psychology 101
GRAND ISSUES OF PSYCHOLOGY
THE GRAND ISSUES OF PSYCHOLOGY
These are large scale questions or themes of
psychology that are part of all aspects of the
field
Stability
vs. Change
Nature vs. Nurture
Rationality vs. Irrationality
STABILITY VS. CHANGE
How
do we change over time?
Changes
involved in many aspects of
psychology
Thinking
Physical
functioning
Personality
Many other aspects of behavior
NATURE VS. NURTURE
What things do we inherit from our family and
what things do we learn?
Where
does aggression come from?
Attractiveness?
Can be called evolutionary psychology?
What
are we born with and what do we develop?
RATIONALITY VS. IRRATIONALITY
RATIONALITY VS. IRRATIONALITY
Why would you hesitate eating a chocolate
cockroach?
Reason overridden by two factors:
Emotions
Gut
feelings
Other examples – procrastination, lashing out
because you are in a bad mood, stick with bad
decision even though you know you are wrong