Philosophical roots : Psychology in the making --
The four temperaments of personality --
There is a reasoning soul in this machine --
Concepts become forces when they resist one another --
Be that self which one truly is --
Personality is composed of nature and nurture --
The laws of hysteria are universal --
A peculiar destruction of the internal connections of the psyche --
The beginnings of the mental life date from the beginnings of life --
We know the meaning of "consciousness" so long as no one asks us to define it --
Adolescence is a new birth --
24 hours after learning something, we forget two-thirds of it --
The intelligence of an individual is not a fixed quantity --
The unconscious sees the men behind the curtains --
Behaviorism : Responding to our environment --
The sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water --
Profitless acts are stamped out --
Anyone, regardless of their nature, can be trained to be anything --
That great God-given maze which is our human world --
Once a rat has visited our grain sack we can plan on its return --
Nothing is more natural that for the cat to "love" the rat --
Learning is just not possible --
Imprinting cannot be forgotten! --
Behavior is shaped by positive and negative reinforcement --
Stop imagining the scene and relax --
Psychotherapy : The unconscious determines behavior --
The unconscious is the true psychical reality --
The neurotic carries a feeling of inferiority with him constantly --
The collective unconscious is made up of archetypes --
The struggle between the life and death instincts persists throughout life --
The tyranny of the "shoulds" --
The superego becomes clear only when it confronts the ego with hostility --
Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself --
It is notoriously inadequate to take an adopted child into one's home and love him --
The unconscious is the discourse of the other --
Man's main task is to give birth to himself --
The good life is a process not a state of being --
What a man can be, he must be --
Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meeting --
One does not become fully human painlessly --
Rational beliefs create healthy emotional consequences --
The family is the "factory" where people are made --
Turn on, tune in, drop out --
Insight may cause blindness --
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through --
Our history does not determine our destiny --
Only good people get depressed --
Fathers are subject to a rule of silence --
Cognitive psychology : The calculating brain --
Instinct is a dynamic pattern --
Interruption of a task greatly improves its chances of being remembered --
When a baby hears footsteps, an assembly is excited --
Knowing is a process not a product --
A man with conviction is a hard man to change --
The magical number 7, plus or minus 2 --
There's more to the surface than meets the eye --
We can listen to only one voice at once --
Time's arrow is bent into a loop --
Perception is externally guided hallucination --
We are constantly on the lookout for causal connections --
Events and emotion are stored in memory together --
Emotions are a runaway train --
Ecstasy is a step into an alternative reality --
Happy people are extremely social --
What we believe with all our hearts is not necessarily the truth --
The seven sins of memory --
One is not one's thought --
The fear is that biology will debunk all that we hold sacred --
Compulsive behavior rituals are attempts to control intrusive thoughts --
Social psychology : Being in a world of others --
You cannot understand a system until you try to change it --
How strong is the urge toward social conformity? --
Life is a dramatically enacted thing --
The more you see it, the more you like it --
Who likes competent women? --
Flashbulb memories are fires by events of high emotionality --
The goal is not to advance knowledge, but to be in the know --
We are, by nature, social beings --
We believe people get what they dese.
