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| “we are a liberal arts college and we are scientists”. |
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| "one slightly significant contribution to experimental psychology" |
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| completed the “most brilliant examination for the Ph.D. that we have had at Harvard, but they would not award it to her”. |
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| "Divide the time equally between getting the facts and proving them. Use such equipment as may be at hand and make the most of it. Be systematic. Learn a little at a time, but learn it thoroughly. Do not be so bent on reflection that you lose the use of your senses. Do not confuse observations with conclusions. Do not wait to be questioned; ask your own questions and find your own answers." |
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| ." “PLAY – Rule 14. Learn to guide your child's play intelligently, for it is of great significance and importance in his education and development |
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| PUNISHMENT – Rule 16. Punishment should be given only to develop a child's character and not to relieve the parent's feelings”. |
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| "regarded herself as quite plain . . . & assumed that no one would marry her“. |
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| always lived in anxiety about her mother potentially dying. She grew up secluded loving books; she can’t remember when she started to read- homeschooled because she was anxious about school, didn’t attend until she was 9 and attended a public school with 6 year olds. Throughout her childhood she was constantly told she was the ugly one, not pleasing, etc. she looked back on her childhood fondly |
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| She had her days scheduled and planned out to the T, she didn’t like riding the trolley to school- loved organization. Always a great student, always received praise for her grades. |
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| Very close to her father-took two cross country trips with him. Her cousin went to university of CA so she was interested and told her dad so who wasn’t interested in her going to college because college was for teachers and wanted her to stay home to help her mother. Not many friends, irony is she went to that college and gave the commencement address. Always approached whatever faced her with a great deal of humility. |
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| They ran the household like a business; she became so famous in engineering circles, earned PhD, dissertation on scientific management. Frank expected her to be a part of the business, Frank was the brains and she made the office run and helped with management, children ran household. |
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| No mention of childhood companions, but rather the "blessed privilege of an only child to be undisturbed when at leisure”. |
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| Unmarried women, limited in numbers and in contacts with life, cannot charge the citadel of professional privilege in sufficient volume and momentum to carry it. Until all women of ability, in the sense in which it may be said of all men of ability, are in action, it is probable that few women will reach the highest, and the avenues will remain obstructed |
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| This is the essence of beauty--the possession of a quality which excites the human organism to functioning harmonious with its own nature |
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| The Nature of Beauty is in the relation of means to an end; the means, the possibilities of stimulation in the motor, visual, auditory, and purely ideal fields; the end, a moment of perfection, of self-complete unity of experience, of favourable stimulation with repose. Beauty is not perfection; but the beauty of an object lies in its permanent possibility of creating the perfect moment. The experience of this moment, the union of stimulation and repose, constitutes the unique aesthetic emotion. |
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| The idea of Beauty has been greatly widened since the age of Plato. Then, it was only in order, proportion, unity in variety, that beauty was admitted to consist; today we hold that the moderns have caught a profounder beauty, the beauty of meanings, and we make it matter for rejoicing that nothing is too small, too strange, or too ugly to enter, through its power of suggestion, the realm of the aesthetically valuable; and that the definition of beauty should have been extended to include, under the name of Romantic, Symbolic, Expressive, or Ideal Beauty, all of the elements of aesthetic experience, all that emotionally stirs us in representation. |
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| Disabilities are in the environment not in the person. People were not handicapped, they just cannot do certain things. |
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| “I made an adolescent resolve then to the effect that I’d make him seek me out for research some day. Imagine my surprise and real sorrow during the second year of my stay at Hopkins, when I received a letter from him asking to come to me as a research student. Before we could arrange it, his eyesight failed, and he died a few years later.” |
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| “psychology as the behaviorist views it is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior. Introspection forms no essential part of its methods, nor is the scientific value of its data dependent upon the readiness with which they lend themselves to interpretation in terms of consciousness. The behaviorist, in his efforts to get a unitary scheme of animal response, recognizes no dividing line between man and brute. The behavior of man, with all of its refinement and complexity, forms only one part of the behaviorists total scheme of investigation”. |
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| “what we need to do is to start work upon psychology, making behavior, not consciousness, the objective point of our attack. Certainly there are enough problems in the control of behavior to keep us all working many lifetimes without ever allowing us time to think of consciousness as such. Once launched in the undertaking, we will find ourselves in a short time as far divorced from an introspective psychology as the psychology of the present time is divorced from faculty psychology.” |
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| “both psychology and the university could do without me” and |
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| he could find a position that would not be as bad as raising “cabbages or chickens”. |
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| “the consumer is to the manufacturer, the department stores, and the advertising agencies, what the green frog is to the physiologist”. |
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| “I began to learn that it can be just as thrilling to watch the growth of a sales curve of a new product as to watch the learning curve of animals and men”. |
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| “Praise the doubt, low kinds exist without, and a healthy mind in a healthy body” |
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| Any conception of behavior as a series of reactions to stimuli ignores one of the most important characteristics of a stimulus: it occurs in a context and is perceived by a particular individual with certain characteristics. Stimuli must be treated as psychological events, not simply as physical energies coming from the environment. |
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| We cannot break behavior and consciousness down into parts, bits, or elements; we must understand them in terms of their role in allowing the organism to adjust to the environment. |
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| He criticized stimulus response and sensation idea dichotomies, since they suggest distinct psychological entities rather than coordinated wholes. He stressed that responses and ideas always occur in a functional context and used as an illustration a child reaching for a candle flame. |
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| “Standard oil institution” |
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| “housekeeper who steals in at the back door to engage servants” |
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| “It, psychology, is already represented in two score of the best institutions. It has already a voluminous literature; several hundred standard, new experiments. It studies the instincts of animals from the highest to the lowest. It studies the myths, customs, and beliefs of primitive man. It devotes itself to the study of sanity and nervous diseases and has already begun to introduce new methods and utilize new results. It has transformed and shaped the problems of logic and ethics; is slowly rewriting the whole history of philosophy and, in the opinion of many of its more sanguine devotees, is showing itself not only to be the long hoped-for, long delayed science of man, to which all other sciences are bringing their ripest and best thoughts, but is introducing a period that will be known hereafter as the psychological era of scientific thought even more than a few recent decades have been marked by evolution”. |
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| inspirational teacher, considered the great themes of life: the influence of the childhood years, adolescence, aging, insanity, religion, sex, death, and immortality. |
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| “I would rise at six, study until breakfast, go to classes, laboratories, and libraries with no more than fifteen minutes unscheduled during the day, study until exactly nine o’clock at night and go to bed.” |
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| “Worked all day. Got poor marks in Latin for three months. I have made up my mind that will get 92 or more next month. I am going to work on that til I bust if I don’t. Am going to commence tonight. This will be a test as to whether I have for the power to meet the formidable obstacles. 92 or bust. I’ve done it once and I can do it again.” |
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| “it seems almost certain now that I shall be a pure psychologist, and that my career will be spent in the free atmosphere of a great university. That this is settled is a very great advantage, for now is hall not need to waste energy preparing for work I shall never do”. |
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| Was always interested in “what makes people tick”. |
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| He decided “he did not have brains enough to become a philosopher”. |
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| “At the time, the behavioristic point of view had not yet really got into my blood”. |
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| “I once incited one of my children to call her doll Mr. President, on the esoteric grounds that he would lie in any position in which he was placed” |
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| critic of Columbia’s administration, trustees, and president. Considered them autocratic and untrustworthy |
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| He was dismissed in 1917 for his vehement opposition to American involvement in WWI. He wrote a letter to congress supporting his sons distribution of opposing letters to the war. |
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| “loathsome, distended, tumefied, bloated, dropsical mass, testifying to nothing but two facts: first, that there is no such thing as a science of psychology, and second, that [William James] is incapable” |
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| described Wundt’s method of introspection and precise laboratory investigation as “a method which taxes patience to the utmost, and could hardly have arisen in a country whose natives could be bored.” |
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| Called Fechner’s psychology “brass-instrument” and “algebraic formula filled psychology”. |
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| "I have never got over the longing for my home…” |
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| “critically negative” towards religion |
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| Great student who always had a deep need for recognition from his father. |
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| “a man of striking intelligence and fourteen years older than myself. Our relations soon became more intimate and he became my friend and helper in many circumstances”. |
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| they had an affair and started to say that he had a childbirth fantasy when they stopped their meetings. |
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| discovered a “royal road” to the unconscious. He distinguished between the manifest content of dreams—the events, situations, objects, and people we dream about—and the dreams latent content—the underlying meaning of the manifest dream elements. Latent content represents repressed wishes and desires. |
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| “That’s easy, I just use different colors of chalk”. |
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| He thought of an individual as a complex energy field, a dynamic system of needs and tensions that directs perceptions and actions. Behavior is a function of a person interacting with an environment. |
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| Each person moves in a psychological field termed the life space. A life space contains certain goals that have either positive or negative valence. These in turn create vectors that either attract or repel |
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| He borrowed from topology, a non-qualitative representational geometry. Life space; Jordan curves or egg shaped forms; B=f(P,E). more useful to know one case in depth that many cases only in a few aspects. |
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| “was incapable of thinking productively as an individual”. |
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| “Don’t read psychology, read philosophy, or history or science, poetry, novels, biographies—those were the places you would get ideas. Psychology at this point—it will stifle your imagination”. |
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| “by spring we shall have peace”. |
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| self appointed spokesman for Germany in the U.S. and in his lifelong interest in improving relations ad developing greater understanding between his native and adopted countries. He ridiculed the false stereotypes Germans and American’s held about each other |
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| He described two societies and pointed out the good and bad in each. He also provided detailed and insightful descriptions of American social, cultural, economic, political, and intellectual life primarily for a German audience. |
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| “the present hullabaloo will quiet down after a few critical papers have made their appearance; and then we shall get our perspective again. I do not belittle behaviorism by hoping that it may soon be set in its right place! But I get a trifle tired of unhistorical enthusiasms.” |
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| “I’m quite sure my work is worth more than all done by Wundt and his pupils, prof. Wundt seems to appreciate my phenomenal genius”. |
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| Smartest guy in the room just ask him. |
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| person who knew Titchener the best. |
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| In regard to Watson’s approach in outline of philosophy, “I think it contains more truth than most people suppose and I regard it as desirable to develop the behaviorist method to the fullest possible extent”. |
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