07-22-2017, 12:00 AM
Psychology, the study of the mind,...
There's a few problems with psychology. One is that even a simple statement like that isn't entirely accurate. When I studied psychology I was given the definition that it was the study of human behavior. When psychologists can't agree about what it is their field studies, you know there's some issues with it at a fundamental level.
Serloco, I've studied major psychologists, but to be honest, they all had their specialties and none of them really struck a chord with me. Each specialty makes sense, as a piece, but I was often hoping for a unification of specialties rather than a fragmented field.
Interestingly enough, I happened to come up with a start for a unified theory of psychology about 3 months ago, (I was studying the mind and human behavior, but from a "rationalist" perspective, not a psychological one). Try this out for size and tell me what you think...
Here are all the reasons that people do things....
1 - Blindly out of habit
2 - They are trying to act out a role they are playing, (such as mom, dad, chef, patriot, postal worker, Mormon, etc.)
3 - Their desire to do the thing outweighs the energy they put into a rule which says they shouldn't do it.
I'm guessing that all human actions can be explained by some combination of these things. Sure this doesn't get into other psychological items like the effects of chemical substances on the brain, or how people percieve differently and how that then influences their actions. However I think looking at those three things as a start and building up from there one could cover all of psychology. Am I right? Can you give an example of something that isn't covered by those three?
There's a few problems with psychology. One is that even a simple statement like that isn't entirely accurate. When I studied psychology I was given the definition that it was the study of human behavior. When psychologists can't agree about what it is their field studies, you know there's some issues with it at a fundamental level.
Serloco, I've studied major psychologists, but to be honest, they all had their specialties and none of them really struck a chord with me. Each specialty makes sense, as a piece, but I was often hoping for a unification of specialties rather than a fragmented field.
Interestingly enough, I happened to come up with a start for a unified theory of psychology about 3 months ago, (I was studying the mind and human behavior, but from a "rationalist" perspective, not a psychological one). Try this out for size and tell me what you think...
Here are all the reasons that people do things....
1 - Blindly out of habit
2 - They are trying to act out a role they are playing, (such as mom, dad, chef, patriot, postal worker, Mormon, etc.)
3 - Their desire to do the thing outweighs the energy they put into a rule which says they shouldn't do it.
I'm guessing that all human actions can be explained by some combination of these things. Sure this doesn't get into other psychological items like the effects of chemical substances on the brain, or how people percieve differently and how that then influences their actions. However I think looking at those three things as a start and building up from there one could cover all of psychology. Am I right? Can you give an example of something that isn't covered by those three?