Psychology

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Psychology is an area of study that is far from having certain answers. It is a science based on conflicting ideas, some that oppose each other and some that work together. In short, psychology is a science of debate more than agreement. In psychology, there are three main issues that are debated - nature versus nurture; irrationality versus rationality; and stability versus change. To consider these issues further, some of the various ideas surrounding each debate are discussed in turn. This includes providing the author's own beliefs on each debate. In addition, the paper applies some of the ideas to examples and experiences in the author's own life to illustrate how her beliefs on the issue work in practice.

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"Other psychologists go further stating that an individual's psychology has more to do with the environment than biology. For example, the doctrine of behaviorism states that behavior "can be described solely by environmental events" (Seamon & Kenrick 1994, p. 190). I think this belief is not recognizing the important role that biology plays. Instead, I believe that an individual's psychology is based more on the interaction between themselves and the environment. This belief is similar in some ways to the ideas of Freud. Freud believed that every individual is born with a set of specific drives, which he called the id. Later, the individual develops the ego and the superego. The individual's behaviors then become determined by the conflict between the individual's internal factors and the factors of the environment."

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