Psychology
Psychologists are professionals who study the brain’s processes and human behavior through observations, interpretations and recordings of the relationships between people, animals and the environment. Psychological studies are done to comprehend and elaborate the emotions, thoughts, feelings and habits of people through complex and, at times, difficult social experiments and surveys. Even though many studies have been done, are being done and shall be done on people’s behaviors, it is impossible to understand human behavior fully. This aspect is because people’s behaviors are determined by different reasons, including experiences, situation, culture, and education. It is nearly impossible to study people from different cultures, environments, situations, statuses, education, and different experiences (Dovidio et al., 2017). It is much harder to record and quantify that data and then relate it to different people and behaviors of people in our lives. Psychology confirms that people do not even fully understand themselves and that most of their behaviors are pushed by external issues such as situations and experiences rather than their minds. Therefore the fact that human behaviors are subjective rejects the hypothesis that psychologists can fully comprehend human behavior.
Most of the scientific foundations still make sense that can be observed in many people’s behaviors. One of the scientific foundations of psychology is the psychoanalysis theory, which was developed by Sigmund Freud. The theory’s major assumption is that people have unconscious desires, memories, feelings and thoughts that direct and influence their actions (Gross, 2015). The theory also talks about the fixation of stages of development that have consequences on their adult stages. For instance, if an individual fixates on the toilet training stage in child development, they are likely to have hygienic issues in their adult stage.
Sigmund Freud’s personality theory is one of the approaches that is still applied based on psychoanalysis’s scientific foundation. The personality theory’s explanation of id, ego and superego explains an individual’s psychoanalyzed behavior (Rital, 2015). The behavioral pattern that happens in individuals in their relationship with other people can be explained by this theory, which is based on the foundations of psychoanalysis.