Psychology Quotes - Page 17

• Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Children, Animal, Problem

  "Principles of Physiological Psychology".

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• Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Problem, Metaphysical, Treatment

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Two, Arise, Aspect

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!

  George W. Crane

  Book, Psychiatry, Practicals

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• I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish 'psychic distance' from the 'mental facts' to which Köhler referred, and then to explore the possibilities for developing explanatory theories... We must recognize that even the most familiar phenomena require explanation and that we have no privileged access to the underlying mechanisms, no more so than in physiology or physics.

  Noam Chomsky

  Distance, Thinking, Order

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• If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d' être, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases.

  Wolfgang Kohler

  Boys, Men, Understanding

  "Gestalt Psychology". Book by Wolfgang Köhler, p. 32, 1930.

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• In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and the articulatory movements into harmony with each other. If the expressive movement which which follows the idea is retarded through mechanical causes, as is the case in writing ... such anticipations make their appearance with particular ease.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Writing, Ideas, Movement

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• It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Science, Men, Understanding

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• Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were thnking. Or they sought to attain the same end by asking another person a question, by means of which certain processes of thought would be excited, and then by questioning the person about the introspection he had made. It is obvious ... that nothing can be discovered in such experiments.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Mean, Would Be, Attention

  Wilhelm Wundt, (2013). “An Introduction to Psychology”, p.75, Read Books Ltd

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• Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man.

  Edouard Seguin

  Men, Two, Order

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• Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Hands, Ideas, Long

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• On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Hands, Individual, Form

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Philosophical, Reflection, Mind

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Life, Hands, Process

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Life, Fields, Facts

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Psychology is a very unsatisfactory science.

  Wolfgang Kohler

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• Psychology must not only strive to become a useful basis for the other mental sciences, but it must also turn again and again to the historical sciences, in order to obtain an understanding for the more highly developed metal processes.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Order, Understanding, Historical

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• Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer from such manifestations of the bodily life in other creatures as indicate the presence of a consciousness similar to our own.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Hands, Giving, Consciousness

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• 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.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Law, Quality, Molecules

  Wilhelm Wundt, (2013). “An Introduction to Psychology”, p.78, Read Books Ltd

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• The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Attitude, Philosophy, Medicine

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Mind, Subjectivity, Consciousness

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system. An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.

  Gordon Allport

  Dog, Offering, Long

  "A Psychological Interpretation". Book by Gordon Allport, p. 199, 1938.

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• The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Class, Inquiry, Stage

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Men, Thinking, Prejudice

  Wilhelm Wundt (2014). “Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology (Psychology Revivals)”, p.363, Routledge

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• There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Failing, Psychological, Source

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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