Themes and Theories of Psychology A00991352

Themes and Theories of Psychology

I am attracted to the field of Psychology for a wide variety of reasons.

Among them are my ancestors have direct ties to the Trojan War. Which is where Wilhelm Wundt read the versions of and found the basic tools of Psychology buried in those versions (Pawlik, K. & Rosenzweig, M. 2000). I like to explore those issues more. My perspective runs with cognition, historiography, and neuropsychology.

I am drawn to those areas because to me there is a lot more happening in those than is currently understood. In those areas a solid hypothesis can be developed, which connects them together. Using mathematics to turn all historical events into variables, then connect those variables into a map, then use said map to determine if there is any connection to the cognition associated with a neuro-network which includes the biology of the brain.

The whole nature versus nurture debate to me is an odd answer (Pinker, S. 2004). Not only do I perceive the discussion from a very different point of view, but I also do not entertain theories that have been disproven. Nature cannot be changed no matter how hard the aggressor wants them to. Nurture can be changed but only within specific per individual parameters (Sasaki, J. Y., & Kim, H. S. 2017).

However the society each individual lives in also determines to a rather large degree what parameters the nurture and nature behaviors can operate. Example my nurture and nature would not allow me to live very long in say Mecca, or Tabriz Iran. Nor for that matter would I be able to be happy and function in Oklahoma City. I managed in Colorado Springs, Colorado but with difficulty. The friends, family, social group, etc. from small to large make a lot of what is possible within each individuals nurture and nature decisions.

My specialty is studying history, through the lens of neuropsychology. The nurture nature debate works entirely different from a micro, quantum physics level.

In my studies the above is the explanation for the interplay between biology and environment can and do have on behavior. A huge amount of a person’s (both nurture and nature) behavior depends on what the people and groups around decide are acceptable parameters.

references

Pawlik, K. & Rosenzweig, M. (2000). Psychological science: Content, methodology, history, and profession. In K. Pawlik & M. Rosenzweig, The international handbook of psychology (pp. 3–19). London: SAGE Publications. doi:10.4135/9781848608399.n1

Pinker, S. (2004). Why nature and nurture won’t go away. Daedalus, 133(4), 5–17.

Sasaki, J. Y., & Kim, H. S. (2017). Nature, nurture, and their interplay: A review of cultural neuroscience. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48(1), 4–22. doi:10.1177/0022022116680481