PHILOSOPHICAL ROOTS: PSYCHOLOGY IN THE MAKING. The four temperaments of personality: Galen --
There is a reasoning soul in this machine: Descartes --
Concepts become forces when they resist one another: Johann Friedrich Herbart --
Be that self which one truly is Søren Kierkegaard --
Personality is composed of nature and nurture: Francis Galton --
The laws of hysteria are universal: Jean-Martin Charcot --
A peculiar destruction of the internal connections of the psyche: Emil Kraepelin --
The beginnings of the mental life date from the beginnings of life: Wilhelm Wundt --
We know the meaning of "consciousness" so long as no one asks us to define it: William James --
Adolescence is a new birth: G. Stanley Hall --
24 hours after learning something, we forget two-thirds of it: Hermann Ebbinghaus --
The intelligence of an individual is not a fixed quantity: Alfred Binet --
The unconscious sees the men behind the curtains: Pierre Janet.
BEHAVIORISM: RESPONDING TO OUR ENVIRONMENT. The sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water Ivan Pavlov --
Profitless acts are stamped out: Edward Thorndike --
Anyone, regardless of their nature, can be trained to be anything: John B. Watson --
That great God-given maze which is our human world Edward Tolman --
Once a rat has visited our grain sack we can plan on its return Edwin Guthrie --
Nothing is more natural than for the cat to "love" the rat Zing-Yang Kuo --
Learning is just not possible Karl Lashley --
Imprinting cannot be forgotten! Konrad Lorenz --
Behavior is shaped by positive and negative reinforcement B.F. Skinner --
Stop imagining the scene and relax: Joseph Wolpe.
PSYCHOTHERAPY: THE UNCONSCIOUS DETERMIINES BEHAVIOR. The unconscious is the true psychical reality: Sigmund Freud --
The neurotic carries a feeling of inferiority with him constantly: Alfred Adler --
The collective unconscious is made up of archetypes: Carl Jung --
The struggle between the life and death instincts persists throughout life: Melanie Klein --
The tyranny of the "shoulds" Karen Horney --
The superego becomes clear only when it confronts the ego with hostility Anna Freud --
Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself Fritz Perls --
It is notoriously inadequate to take an adopted child into one's home and love him: Donald Winnicott --
The unconscious is the discourse of the Other: Jacques Lacan --
Man's main task is to give birth to himself: Erich Fromm --
The good life is a process not a state of being: Carl Rogers --
What a man can be, he must be: Abraham Maslow --
Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning: Viktor Frankl --
One does not become fully human painlessly: Rollo May --
Rational beliefs create healthy emotional consequences: Albert Ellis --
The family is the "factory" where people are made: Virginia Satir --
Turn on, tune in, drop out: Timothy Leary --
Insight may cause blindness: Paul Watzlawick --
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through: R.D. Laing --
Our history does not determine our destiny: Boris Cyrulnik --
Only good people get depressed Dorothy Rowe --
Fathers are subject to a rule of silence: Guy Corneau.
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: THE CALCULATING BRAIN. Instinct is a dynamic pattern Wolfgang Köhler --
Interruption of a task greatly improves its chances of being remembered: Bluma Zeigarnik --
When a baby hears footsteps, an assembly is excited: Donald Hebb --
Knowing is a process not a product: Jerome Bruner --
A man with conviction is a hard man to change: Leon Festinger --
The magical number 7, plus or minus 2: George Armitage Miller --
There's more to the surface than meets the eye: Aaron Beck --
We can listen to only one voice at once: Donald Broadbent --
Time's arrow is bent into a loop: Endel Tulving --
Perception is externally guided hallucination: Roger N. Shepard --
We are constantly on the lookout for causal connections: Daniel Kahneman --
Events and emotion are stored in memory together: Gordon H. Bower --
Emotions are a runaway train: Paul Ekman --
Ecstasy is a step into an alternative reality: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi --
Happy people are extremely social: Martin Seligman --
What we believe with all our hearts is not necessarily the truth: Elizabeth Loftus --
The seven sins of memory: Daniel Schacter --
One is not one's thoughts: Jon Kabat-Zinn --
The fear is that biology will debunk all that we hold sacred: Steven Pinker --
Compulsive behavior rituals are attempts to control intrusive thoughts: Paul Salkovskis.
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: BEING IN A WORLD OF OTHERS. You cannot understand a system until you try to change it: Kurt Lewin --
How strong is the urge toward social conformity?: Solomon Asch --
Life is a dramatically enacted thing: Erving Goffman --
The more you see it, the more you like it: Robert Zajonc --
Who likes competent women?: Janet Taylor Spence --
Flashbulb memories are fired by events of high emotionality: Roger Brown --
The goal is not to advance knowledge, but to be in the know Serge Moscovici --
We are, by nature, social beings William Glasser --
We believe people get what they deserve: Melvin Lerner --
People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy: Elliot Aronson --
People do what they are told to do: Stanley Milgram --
What happens when you put good people in an evil place?: Philip Zimbardo --
Trauma must be understood in terms of the relationship between the individual and society: Ignacio Martín-Baró
DEVELOPMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: FROM INFANT TO ADULT. The goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things Jean Piaget --
We become ourselves through others: Lev Vygotsky --
A child is not beholden to any particular parent: Bruno Bettelheim --
Anything that grows has a ground plan: Erik Erikson --
Early emotional bonds are an integral part of human nature John Bowlby --
Contact comfort is overwhelmingly important: Harry Harlow --
We prepare children for a life about whose course we know nothing: Françoise Dolto --
A sensitive mother creates a secure attachment Mary Ainsworth --
Who teaches a child to hate and fear a member of another race?: Kenneth Clark --
Girls get better grades than boys: Eleanor E. Maccoby --
Most human behavior is learned through modeling: Albert Bandura --
Morality develops in six stages: Lawrence Kohlberg --
The language organ grows like any other body organ: Noam Chomsky --
Autism is an extreme form of the male brain: Simon Baron-Cohen.
PSYCHOLOGY OF DIFFERENCE: PERSONALITY AND INTELLIGENCE. Name as many uses as you can think of for a toothpick: J.P. Guilford --
Did Robinson Crusoe lack personality traits before the advent of Friday?: Gordon Allport --
General intelligence consists of both fluid and crystallized intelligence: Raymond Cattell --
There is an association between insanity and genius: Hans J. Eysenck --
Three key motivations drive performance: David C. McClelland --
Emotion is an essentially unconscious process: Nico Frijda --
Behavior without environmental cues would be absurdly chaotic: Walter Mischel --
We cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals: David Rosenhan --
The three faces of Eve: Thigpen & Cleckley.
Philosophical Roots: Psychology in the Making
Behaviorism: Responding to our Environment
Psychotherapy: the Unconscious Determiines Behavior
Cognitive Psychology: the Calculating Brain
Social Psychology: being in a World of Others
Developmental Philosophy: from Infant to Adult
Psychology of Difference: Personality and Intelligence
