The psychology book

Machine generated contents note: The four temperaments of personality -- There is a reasoning soul in this machine / Galen ---- Dormez! / Descartes ---- Concepts become forces when they resist one another / Abbé Faria ---- Be that self which one truly is / Johann Friedrich Herbart ---- Personality is composed of nature and nurture / Søren Kierkegaard ---- The laws of hysteria are universal / Francis Galton ---- A peculiar destruction of the internal connections of the psyche / Jean-Martin Charcot ---- The beginnings of the mental life date from the beginnings of life / Emil Kraepelin ---- We know the meaning of 'consciousness' so long as no one asks us to define it / Wilhelm Wundt ---- Adolescence is a new birth / William James ---- 24 hours after learning something, we forget two-thirds of it / G. Stanley Hall ---- The intelligence of an individual is not a fixed quantity / Hermann Ebbinghaus ---- The unconscious sees the men behind the curtains / Alfred Binet. Contents note continued: The sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water / Pierre Janet ---- Profitless acts are stamped out / Ivan Pavlov ---- Anyone, regardless of their nature, can be trained to be anything / Edward Thorndike ---- That great God-given maze which is our human world / John B. Watson ---- Once a rat has visited our grain sack we can plan on its return / Edward Tolman ---- Nothing is more natural than for the cat to 'love' the rat / Edwin Guthrie ---- Learning is just not possible / Zing Yang Kuo ---- Imprinting cannot be forgotten! / Karl Lashley ---- Behaviour is shaped by positive and negative reinforcement / Konrad Lorenz ---- Stop imagining the scene and relax / B.F. Skinner ---- The unconscious is the true psychical reality / Joseph Wolpe ---- The neurotic carries a feeling of inferiority with him constantly / Sigmund Freud ---- The collective unconscious is made up of archetypes / Alfred Adler. Contents note continued: The struggle between the life and death instincts persists throughout life / Carl Jung ---- The tyranny of the 'shoulds' / Melanie Klein ---- The superego becomes clear only when it confronts the ego with hostility / Karen Horney ---- Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself / Anna Freud ---- It is notoriously inadequate to take an adopted child into one's home and love him / Fritz Perls ---- The unconscious is the discourse of the Other / Donald Winnicott ---- Man's main task is to give birth to himself / Jacques Lacan ---- The good life is a process not a state of being / Erich Fromm ---- What a man can be, he must be / Carl Rogers ---- Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning / Abraham Maslow ---- One does not become fully human painlessly / Viktor Frankl ---- Rational beliefs create healthy emotional consequences / Rollo May ---- The family is the 'factory' where people 4 are made / Albert Ellis. Contents note continued: Turn on, tune in, drop out / Virginia Satir ---- Insight may cause blindness / Timothy Leary ---- Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through / Paul Watzlawick ---- Our history does not determine our destiny / R.D. Laing ---- Only good people get depressed / Boris Cyrulnik ---- Fathers are subject to a rule of silence / Dorothy Rowe ---- Instinct is a dynamic pattern / Guy Corneau ---- Interruption of a task greatly improves its chances of being remembered / Wolfgang Köhler ---- When a baby hears footsteps, an assembly is excited / Bluma Zeigarnik ---- Knowing is a process not a product / Donald Hebb ---- A man with conviction is a hard man to change / Jerome Bruner ---- The magical number 7, plus or minus 2 / Leon Festinger ---- There's more to the surface than meets the eye / George Armitage Miller ---- We can listen to only one voice at once / Aaron Beck ---- Time's arrow is bent into a loop / Donald Broadbent. Contents note continued: Perception is externally guided hallucination / Endel Tulving ---- We are constantly on the lookout for causal connections / Roger N. Shepard ---- Events and emotion are stored in memory together / Daniel Kahneman ---- Emotions are a runaway train / Gordon H. Bower ---- Ecstasy is a step into an alternative reality / Paul Ekman ---- Happy people are extremely social / Mihály Csikszentmihályi ---- What we believe with all our hearts is not necessarily the truth / Martin Seligman ---- The seven sins of memory / Elizabeth Loftus ---- One is not one's thoughts / Daniel Schacter ---- The fear is that biology will debunk all that we hold sacred / Jon Kabat-Zinn ---- Compulsive behaviour rituals are attempts to control intrusive thoughts / Steven Pinker ---- You cannot understand a system until you try to change it / Paul Salkovskis ---- How strong is the urge towards social conformity? / Kurt Lewin ---- Life is a dramatically enacted thing / Solomon Asch. Contents note continued: The more you see it, the more you like it / Erving Goffman ---- Who likes competent women? / Robert Zajonc ---- Flashbulb memories are fired by events of high emotionality / Janet Taylor Spence ---- The goal is not to advance knowledge, but to be in the know / Roger Brown ---- We are, by nature, social beings / Serge Moscovici ---- We believe people get what they deserve / William Glasser ---- People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy / Melvin Lerner ---- People do what they are told to do / Elliot Aronson ---- What happens when you put good people in an evil place? / Stanley Milgram ---- Trauma must be understood in terms of the relationship between the individual and society / Philip Zimbardo ---- The goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things / Ignacio Martin-Baró ---- We become ourselves through others / Jean Piaget ---- A child is not beholden to any particular parent / Lev Vygotsky. Contents note continued: Anything that grows has a ground plan / Bruno Bettelheim ---- Early emotional bonds are an integral part of human nature / Erik Erikson ---- Contact comfort is overwhelmingly important / John Bowlby ---- We prepare children for a life about whose course we know nothing / Harry Harlow ---- A sensitive mother creates a secure attachment / Françoise Dolto ---- Who teaches a child to hate and fear a member of another race? / Mary Ainsworth ---- Girls get better grades than boys / Kenneth Clark ---- Most human behaviour is learned through modelling / Eleanor E. Maccoby ---- Morality develops in six stages / Albert Bandura ---- The language organ grows like any other body organ / Lawrence Kohlberg ---- Autism is an extreme form of the male brain / Noam Chomsky ---- Name as many uses as you can think of for a toothpick / Simon Baron-Cohen ---- Did Robinson Crusoe lack personality traits before the advent of Friday? / J.P. Guilford. Contents note continued: General intelligence consists of both fluid and crystallized intelligence / Gordon Allport ---- There is an association between insanity and genius / Raymond Cattell ---- Three key motivations drive performance / Hans J. Eysenck ---- Emotion is an essentially unconscious process / David C. McClelland ---- Behaviour without environmental cues would be absurdly chaotic / Nico Frijda ---- We cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals / Walter Mischel ---- The three faces of Eve / David Rosenhan.--