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18
The four temperaments

of

personality

48
24 hours after learning

62
Profitless acts are

Galen

something, we forget

stamped

out

two-thirds of it

Edward

Thorndike

20
There is a reasoning

Hermann Ebbinghaus

soul in this machine

66
Anyone, regardless of

Descartes

50
The intelligence of

their nature, can be

an individual is not

trained to be anything

22
Dormez!
Abbé Faria

a fixed quantity

John B. Watson

Alfred Binet

24
Concepts become forces

72
That great God-given

when they resist one

54
The unconscious sees the

maze which is our human

another

men behind the curtains

world

Edward Tolman

Johann Friedrich Herbart

Pierre Janet

74
Once a rat has visited our

26
Be that self which one

grain sack we can plan on

truly

is

Søren Kierkegaard

its

return

Edwin Guthrie

28
Personality is composed

75
Nothing is more natural

of nature and nurture

than for the cat to “love”

Francis

Galton

the

rat

Zing-Yang Kuo

30
The laws of hysteria

76
Learning is just not

are

universal

possible

Karl Lashley

Jean-Martin Charcot

77
Imprinting cannot be

31
A peculiar destruction of

forgotten!

Konrad Lorenz

the internal connections

of the psyche

78
Behavior is shaped by

Emil Kraepelin

positive and negative

reinforcement

B.F. Skinner

32
The beginnings of the

mental life date from

86
Stop imagining the scene

the beginnings of life

and

relax

Wilhelm Wundt

Joseph

Wolpe

PSYCHOTHERAPY
130
The good life is a process

not a state of being

Carl

Rogers

COGNITIVE

THE UNCONSCIOUS

PSYCHOLOGY

DETERMI NES BEHAVIOR

138
What a man can be,

THE CALCULATING BRAIN

he must be

92
The unconscious is the

Abraham

Maslow

true psychical reality

160
Instinct is a dynamic

Sigmund

Freud

140
Suffering ceases to be

pattern

Wolfgang Köhler

suffering at the moment

100
The neurotic carries a

it finds a meaning

162
Interruption of a task

feeling of inferiority with

Viktor Frankl

greatly improves its

him

constantly

chances of being

Alfred

Adler

141
One does not become fully
remembered

human

painlessly

Bluma Zeigarnik

102
The collective unconscious
Rollo

May

is made up of archetypes

163
When a baby hears

Carl

Jung

142
Rational beliefs create

footsteps, an assembly

healthy emotional

is

excited

108
The struggle between the
consequences

Donald Hebb

life and death instincts

Albert Ellis

persists throughout life

164
Knowing is a process

Melanie

Klein

146
The family is the

not a product

“factory” where people

Jerome Bruner

110
The tyranny of the

are

made

“shoulds”

Karen Horney

Virginia

Satir

166
A man with conviction

is a hard man to change

111
The superego becomes

148
Turn on, tune in, drop out

Leon Festinger

clear only when it

Timothy

Leary

confronts the ego with

168
The magical number 7,

hostility

Anna Freud

149
Insight may cause

plus or minus 2

blindness

George Armitage Miller

112
Truth can be tolerated

Paul Watzlawick

only if you discover it

174
There’s more to the

yourself
Fritz Perls

150
Madness need not be all

surface than meets

breakdown. It may also be
the

eye

118
It is notoriously

break-through

Aaron Beck

inadequate to take an

R.D. Laing

adopted child into one’s

178
We can listen to only one

home and love him

152
Our history does not

voice at once

Donald

Winnicott

determine our destiny

Donald Broadbent

Boris

Cyrulnik

122
The unconscious is the

186
Time’s arrow is bent

discourse of the Other

154
Only good people get

into a loop

Jacques Lacan

depressed

Dorothy Rowe

Endel Tulving

124
Man’s main task is to

155
Fathers are subject to

192
Perception is externally

give birth to himself

a rule of silence

guided

hallucination

Erich

Fromm

Guy Corneau

Roger N. Shepard

SOCIAL

PSYCHOLOGY

BEING IN A WORLD

OF OTHERS

218
You cannot understand

193
We are constantly on

a system until you try

the lookout for causal

to change it

connections

Kurt Lewin

Daniel Kahneman

224
How strong is the

194
Events and emotion are

urge toward social

stored in memory together

conformity?

Gordon H. Bower

Solomon Asch

196
Emotions are a runaway

228
Life is a dramatically

238
The goal is not to advance

train

Paul Ekman

enacted thing

knowledge, but to be

Erving Goffman

in the know
Serge Moscovici

198
Ecstasy is a step into

an alternative reality

230
The more you see it,

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