“The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.” WorldFactsExistenceConsciousnessStudyPsychologyMaterialsAssumingInner WorldMaterial World Book:The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology
“A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ... First, there are those judgments whose verification has simply dropped out of memory. ... The second type of unreasoned judgments we hold is the opinions we adopt from others ... The third class of judgments in Professor Hibben's list comprises those which have subconscious origin. The material that furnishes their support does not reach the focal point of consciousness, but psychology insists upon its existence.” FirstsMayDoeMemoriesExistenceConsciousnessOpinionClassSupportPsychologyMaterialsTypeJudgmentThirdsPrejudiceListsProfessorsSubconsciousIllogicalVerificationFocal Point Author:Richard M. Weaver
“To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.” PeopleTryingLightSpeakLanguageProcessPsychologyMaterialsSourceTruth IsWideEndlessGapsShedManipulateObfuscationObsequiousness Author:Mark Leibovich
“Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.” PeopleBookEndsJobsPsychologyExampleDesignMaterialsArchitectureTendenciesWho We AreHolidayDomainInappropriateUnsuccessful Author:Alain de Botton
“To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making faculty, is a very important part of our mental functioning. An image formed by the imagination is a reality from the point of view of psychology; it is quite true that it has no physical existence, but are we going to limit reality to that which is material? We shall be far out of our reckoning if we do, for mental images are potent things, and although they do not actually exist on the physical plane, they influence it far more than most people suspect.” PeopleIfsMindImportantRealityImaginationViewsExistencePsychologyInfluenceMaterialsLimitsPoint Of ViewPlanesRealmsFacultySuspectsImaginaryReckoning Author:Dion Fortune
“Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations joined to certain central cerebral processes... It is contradicted by the fact of consciousness itself, which cannot possibly be derived from any physical qualities of material molecules or atoms.” MadeFactsLawCertainProcessConsciousnessQualityPsychologyMaterialsPsychologicalCombinationSensationsAtomsMoleculesReflexesCerebral Book:An Introduction to Psychology Source: An Introduction to Psychology
“The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take a view of learning as a reconstruction rather than as a transmission of knowledge. Then we extend the idea of manipulative materials to the idea that learning is most effective when part of an activity the learner experiences as constructing a meaningful product.” TwoIdeasViewsPsychologyMaterialsProductsTheoryActivityProjectsAspectMeaningfulReconstructionLearnersTransmissionManipulativeScience Education Author:Seymour Papert