Psychology Book

Behaviourism
Responding to our Environment


1. Introduction

2. The four temperaments of Personality - by Galen

3. There is a reasoning Soul in this machine - by Descartes

4. Dormez! - by Abbe Faria

5. Concepts become forces when they resist on another - by Johann Friedrichg Herbart

6. Be that self which one truly is - by Soren Kierkegaard

7. Personality is composed of nature and nurture - by Francis Galton

8. The laws of hysteria are universal - by Jean Martin Charcot

9. A peculiar destruction of the internal connections of the psyche - by Emil kraepelin

10. The beginings of the mental life date from the beginnings of life - by wilhelm wundt

11. We know the meaning of consciousness so long as no one asks us to define it - by william James

12. Adolescence is a new birth - by G. Stanley Hall

13. 24 hours after learning something, we forget two thirds of it - by Hermann Ebbinghaus

14. The intelligence of an individual is not a fixed quantity - by Alfred binet

15. The unconscious sees the men behind the curtains - by pierre Janet

16. The sight of tasty food makes a hungry man’s mouth water - by Ivan Pavlov

17. Profitless acts are stamped out - by Edward Thorndike

18. Anyone regardless of their nature, can be trained to be anything - by John B. Watson

19. That great God-given maze which is our human world - by Edward Tolman

20. Once a rat has visited our grain sack we can plan on its return - by Edwin Guthrie

21. Nothing is more natural than for the can do “love” the rat - by Zing-Yang Kuo

22. Learning is just not Possible - by Karl Lashley

23. Imprinting cannot be forgotten - by Konrad Lorenz

24. Behaviour is shaped by positive & negative reinforcement - by B.F.Skinner

25. Stop imagining the scene & relax - by Joseph Wolpe


PSYCHOTHERAPY
The Unconscious Determines Behaviour

26. The Unconscious is the true psychical reality - by Sigmund Freud

27. The neurotic carries a feeling of inferiority with him constantly - by Alfred Adler

28. The collective unconscious is made up of archetypes - by Carl Jung

29. The struggle between the life & Death instincts persists throughout lilfe - by Melanie Klein

30. The tyranny of the "shoulds" - by Karen Horney

31. The Superego becomes clear only when it confronts the ego with hostility - by Anna Freud

32. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself - by Fritz Perls

33. It is notoriously inadequate to take an adopted child into one’s home & love him - by Donald Winnicott

34. The unconscious is the discourse of the Other - by Jacques Lacan

35. Man’s main task is to give birth to himself - by Erich Fromm

36. The good life is a process not a state of being - by Carl Rogers

37. What a man can be, he must be - by Abraham Maslow

38. Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning - by Viktor Frankl

39. One does not become fully human painlessly - by Rollo May

40. Rational beliefs create healthy emotional consequences - by Albert Eillis

50. The family is the “factory” where people are made - by Virginia Satir

51. Turn on, tune in, drop out - by Timothy Leary

52. Insight may cause blindness - by Paul Watzlawick

53. Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through - by R D Laing

54. Our history does not determine our destiny - by Boris Cyrulnik

55. Only good people get depressed - by Dorothy Rowe

56. Fathers are subject to a rule of Silence - by Guy Corneau

Cognitive Psychology
The Calculating Brain

57. Instinct is a dynamic pattern - by Wolfgang Kohler

58. Interruption of a task greatly improves its chances ofbeing remembered - by Bluma Zeigarnik

59. When a baby hears footsteps,an assembly is excited - by Donald Hebb

60. Knowing is a process not a product - by Jerome Bruner

61. A man with conviction is a hard man to change - by Leon Festinger

62. The magical number 7, plus or minus 2 - by George Armitage Miller

63. There’s more to the surface than meets the eye - by Aon Beck

64. We can listen to only one voice at once - by Donald Broadbent

65. Time’s arrow is bent into a loop - by Endel Tulving

66. Perception is externally guided hallucination - by Roger N. Shepard

67. We are constantly on the lookout for causal connections - by Daniel Kahneman

68. Events & emotion are stored in memory together - by Gordon H. Bower

69. Emotions are a runaway train - by Paul Ekman

70. Ecstasy is a step into an alternative reality - by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

71. Happy people are extremely social - by Martin Seligman

72. What we believe with all our hearts is not necessarily the truth - by Elizabeth Loftus

73. The seven sins of memory - by Daniel Schacter

74. One is notone’s thoughts - by Jon Kabat-Zinn

75. The fear is that biology will debunk all that we hold sacred - by Steven Pinker

76. Compulsive behaviour rituals are attempts to control intrusive thoughts - Paul Salkovskis


SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
BEING IN A WORLD OF OTHERS

77. You cannot understand a system until you try to change it - by Kurt Lewin

78. How strong is the urge towards social conformit? - by Solomon Asch

79. Life is aDramaatically enacted thing - by Erving Goffman

80. The more you see it,the more you like it - by Robert Zajonc

81. Who likes competent women? - by Janet Taylor Spence

82. Flashbulb memories are fired by events of high emotionality Roger Brown

83. The goal is not to advance knowledge,but to be in the know - by SergeMoscovici

84. We are,by nature,social beings -by William Glasser

85. We believe people get what they desrve - Melvin Lerner

86. People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy - by Elliot Aronson

87. People do what they are told to do - by Stanley Milgram

88. What happens when you put good people in an evil place? - by Philip Zimbardo

89. Trauma must be understood in terms of the relationship between the individual & society - by Ignacio Martin-Baro

Developmental Psychology
from infant to Adult

90. The goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things - by Jean Piaget

91. We become ourselves through others - by Lev vygotsky

92. A child is not beholden to any particular parent - Bruno Bettelheim

93. Anything that grows has a ground plan - by Erik Erikson

94. Early emotional bonds are an integral part of human nature - by Johan Bowlby

95. Contact comfort is overwhelmingly important - by Harry Harlow

96. We prepare children for a life about whose course we know nothing - by Francoise Dolto

97. A Sensitive mother creates a secure attachment - by Mary Ainsworth

98. Who teaches a child to hate and fear a member of another race? - by Kenneth Clark

99. Girls get better grades than boys - by Eleanor E. Maccoby

100. Most human behaviour is learned through modelling - by Albert Bandura

101. Morality develops in six stages - Lawrence Kohlberg

102. The Language organ grows like any other body organ - by Noam Chomsky

103. Autism is an extreme form of the male brain - by Simon Baron-Cohen

104. Name as many uses as you can think of for a toothpick - by J P Guilford

105. Did Robinson Crusoe lack personality traits before the advent of Friday? - by Gordon Allport

106. General intelligence consists of both fluid and crystallized intelligence - by Raymond Cattell

107. There is an association between insanity and genius - by Hans J. Eysenck

108. Three key Motivations drive performance - by David C. McClelland

109. Emotion is an essentially unconscious process - Nico Frijda

110. Behaviour without environmental cues would be absurdly chaotic - by Walter Mischel

111. We cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals - by David Rosenhan

112. The three faces of eve - by Thigpen & Cleckley

113. Directory

114. Glossary

115. Index

116. Acknowledgements