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 that 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 determines 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 / Franc̦oise 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.
