| General Psychology: PSYC&100 |
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the
men of old; seek what they sought. Matsuo
Basho
men of old; seek what they sought. Matsuo
Basho
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
(No more things should be presumed to exist than
are absolutely necessary)
(No more things should be presumed to exist than
are absolutely necessary)
Humor, a good sense of it, is to
Americans what manhood is to
Spaniards and we will go to great
lengths to prove it. Experiments with
laboratory rats have shown that, if one
psychologist in the room laughs at
something a rat does, all of the other
psychologists in the room will laugh
equally. Nobody wants to be left
holding the joke. Garrison Keillor
Americans what manhood is to
Spaniards and we will go to great
lengths to prove it. Experiments with
laboratory rats have shown that, if one
psychologist in the room laughs at
something a rat does, all of the other
psychologists in the room will laugh
equally. Nobody wants to be left
holding the joke. Garrison Keillor
| Lawrence Kohlberg |
| Jerome Singer |
| Stanley Schacter |
| Important Contributers to the field of psychology |
| PSYCHIATRY ENABLES US TO CORRECT OUR FAULTS BY CONFESSING OUR PARENTS' SHORTCOMINGS. THE MORE WE DISAGREE THE GREATER THE CHANCE THAT ONE OF US IS RIGHT. The aim of education should be to teach the child to think, not what to think. John Dewey Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of the brimming mind. Cicero |
Do something everyday for no
other reason than you would
rather not do it, so that when
the hour of dire need draws
nigh, it may find you not
unnerved and untrained to stand
the test.
other reason than you would
rather not do it, so that when
the hour of dire need draws
nigh, it may find you not
unnerved and untrained to stand
the test.
It is the mark of an educated mind to
be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
I count him braver who overcomes
his desires than him who conquers
his enemies, for the hardest victory is
over self.
Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)
be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
I count him braver who overcomes
his desires than him who conquers
his enemies, for the hardest victory is
over self.
Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)
There are no foolish
questions and no
man becomes a fool
until he has stopped
asking questions.
Saul Steinberg
questions and no
man becomes a fool
until he has stopped
asking questions.
Saul Steinberg
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no
recipe for living that fits all cases.
recipe for living that fits all cases.
| Psychology: The science that tells you what you already know in words you don’t understand. Anonymous |
| Sociology: The study of people who do not need to be studied by people who do. E.S. Turner |
Happiest are the people who
give the most happiness to
others. Dennis Diderot
give the most happiness to
others. Dennis Diderot
If at first you don't succeed, try, try,
again. Then quit. No use being a
damned fool about it.
Horse sense is the thing a horse has
which keeps it from betting on
people.
I never drink water because of the
disgusting things that fish do in it.
again. Then quit. No use being a
damned fool about it.
Horse sense is the thing a horse has
which keeps it from betting on
people.
I never drink water because of the
disgusting things that fish do in it.
| Others have described sociology as the painful elaboration of the obvious. |
Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from
experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science,
put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human
heart throughout the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and
hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of
the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings
and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in
every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than
text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick
with a real knowledge of the human soul.
experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science,
put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human
heart throughout the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and
hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of
the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings
and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in
every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than
text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick
with a real knowledge of the human soul.
Your vision will become clear only when
you look into your heart. Who looks
outside, dreams. Who looks inside,
awakens.
you look into your heart. Who looks
outside, dreams. Who looks inside,
awakens.
To expect science or history of
philosophy ever to explain my or
your peculiar consciousness as
you read and reflect on these
words is, however, a fool’s
errand: as Einstein once quipped,
“the purpose of chemistry is not
to recreate the taste of the soup."
philosophy ever to explain my or
your peculiar consciousness as
you read and reflect on these
words is, however, a fool’s
errand: as Einstein once quipped,
“the purpose of chemistry is not
to recreate the taste of the soup."
If you don't want someone to
do something, don't forbid it.
do something, don't forbid it.
The range of what we think and
do is limited by what we fail to
notice. And because we fail to
notice that we fail to notice, there
is little we can do to change; until
we notice how failing to notice
shapes our thoughts and deeds.
do is limited by what we fail to
notice. And because we fail to
notice that we fail to notice, there
is little we can do to change; until
we notice how failing to notice
shapes our thoughts and deeds.
From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby
confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is
subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its
mother and father have been, and their parents and their
parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned
with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is
on the whole successful.
confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is
subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its
mother and father have been, and their parents and their
parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned
with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is
on the whole successful.
| Mahzarin Banaji |
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the
situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do
not demean others when they easily can.
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human
behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
While a few bad apples might spoil the barrel (filled with good fruit/
people), a vinegar barrel will always transform sweet cucumbers
into sour pickles -- regardless of the best intentions, resilience, and
genetic nature of those cucumbers.
situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do
not demean others when they easily can.
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human
behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
While a few bad apples might spoil the barrel (filled with good fruit/
people), a vinegar barrel will always transform sweet cucumbers
into sour pickles -- regardless of the best intentions, resilience, and
genetic nature of those cucumbers.
I think; therefore I am.
An optimist may see a light where there is none,
but why must the pessimist always run to blow it
out?
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing
absolutely in our power.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is
necessary that at least once in your life you doubt,
as far as possible, all things.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so
implausible that it has not already been said by one
philosopher or another.
An optimist may see a light where there is none,
but why must the pessimist always run to blow it
out?
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing
absolutely in our power.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is
necessary that at least once in your life you doubt,
as far as possible, all things.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so
implausible that it has not already been said by one
philosopher or another.
Group action is real, having laws that are
often not reducible to those of its
components taken singly. There are
groups that are more than aggregations
or collections of independent events. The
particular events we call things or bodies
are the product of internal group
relations. In the course of interaction
new relations and properties arise, which
are not identical with the properties of
their constituents."
often not reducible to those of its
components taken singly. There are
groups that are more than aggregations
or collections of independent events. The
particular events we call things or bodies
are the product of internal group
relations. In the course of interaction
new relations and properties arise, which
are not identical with the properties of
their constituents."
| Leon Festinger 1919 - 1989 |
| Elliot Aronson |
A woman drove me to drink and
I didn't even have the decency
to thank her.
All the men in my family were
bearded, and most of the women.
The laziest man I ever met put
popcorn in his pancakes so they
would turn over by themselves.
I didn't even have the decency
to thank her.
All the men in my family were
bearded, and most of the women.
The laziest man I ever met put
popcorn in his pancakes so they
would turn over by themselves.
World's Greatest Psychologist
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