II.   Psychology: Its Grand Issues and Key Perspectives

What are the three "grand issues" about behavior addressed by psychology?
The three issues are stability versus change, nature versus nurture, and rationality versus irrationality.

What are the major perspectives adopted by psychologists and how do they differ?
Major perspectives in psychology include the behavioral, cognitive, biological, psychodynamic, social, and evolutionary approaches. These perspectives focus on different aspects of behavior, but are complementary rather than competing in nature.

	1.5	Classics in the History of Psychology This site claims that its purpose is to make the full texts of a large number of historically significant documents from the scholarly literature of psychology available on the World Wide Web.

	1.6	Nature vs. Nurture: How Much Free Will Do Really We Have? The Social Psychology section of the Trinity University web site, discusses the Nature-Nurture issue – one of the grand issues of psychology – as it relates to the development of personality and self.