Adjusting to modern life....shoot, considering the rate at which today's society is moving, how my parents adjusted, how I am adjusting, how my children are and will adjust, and so on.....definitely varies. There was a time when life moved at a slower pace. This provided us more time to spend on one thing. Sure progress has assisted us in becoming more efficient; however, all that seems to have achieved is that we now have the opportunity to deal with multiple things at the same time.
Over the years many studies have been done on the human being; specifically, the psyche. What makes us tick, what are the trigger points, what is the basis for happiness in a persons life.....the analysis that has been done can come up with "averages" if you will, but are not definitive. Each of us have developed interests that vary from one person to the next. How we learn, how we respond, even what we prefer to eat can vary depending upon where we live, our up-bringing, even the time of day. Yet through all of these variances, we seem to be able to meld with society fairly well.....speaking for the majority. Bandura, Skinner, Pavlov, to name a few, have persued segments of the psychology....specializing in a concentration of the subject. Even with their vast amount of time invested and resulting analysis', they too sometimes reach different conclusions. Maslow's dealing with the hierarchy of needs is a very important issue...society has as a whole has a set of requirements....and then each of us individually has a set of needs. This creates a very dynamic/every-changing world that will continue to be analyzed by psychologists on a continual basis.
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