“Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in its turn, needs to know the physiological aspects of sensory function, in order rightly to appreciate the psychological.” KnowsNeedsUseOrderTurnsResultsPsychologyAspectAppreciateFunctionPsychologicalObservationAnalysisSensationsOrgansSubjectiveSensoryPhysiologicalPhysiology Book:Principles of Physiological Psychology Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology
“My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I'm fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be so subtle and fleeting, can add up over time to change who we become. I'm especially excited these days about investigating how positive emotions change the very ways that our cells form and function to keep us healthy.” WayFormEmotionStudyPsychologyHealthyFunctionAddExcitedAll TimeCellsThese DaysPleasantSubtleFascinatedTopicsFleetingPositive PsychologyInvestigatingPositive EmotionsAll Time Favorite Author:Barbara Fredrickson
“At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.” WorldNeedsChildrenPersonsMightFacesFormMotherNextBornPsychologyBabyPersonalityBirthFunctionIndependentUrgesConquestWombAbsorbingBodily Functions Author:Maria Montessori
“Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.” IfsHas BeensSaidActionEmotionMoralPsychologyEthicsFunctionArticlesDefiniteUtteranceTheorists Author:Alasdair MacIntyre
“Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.” MenTodayPsychologyHe ManToolsFunctionManipulationPsychiatryPsychoanalysis Book:The Sane Society Source: The Sane Society
“Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But realism, being a view about the status of such normative theories, insists that the truth of any firstorder normative standard is not a function of what anyone happens to think of it.” ThinkingWayFirstsStatesHappensActionOrderViewsAttentionMoralPsychologyTheoryStandardsEthicsFunctionComplexesAgentsVarietySaltRealismWorth It Book:Moral Realism: A Defence Source: Moral Realism: A Defence