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“Explaining how these cognitive processes develop was the life’s work of psychologist Jean Piaget (1896–1980). Born in Switzerland, Piaget was fascinated by biology and nature as a child.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) began using “the scientific method” to study human behavior.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“It is no coincidence that the first works linked to this approach were published in the 1940s, not long after B. F. Skinner first published his descriptions of operant conditioning in 1936 (see page 54), especially as Skinner later went on to argue that free will is an illusion.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“It is believed that a learned response such as this can develop into a phobia—a persistent and irrational fear that interferes with everyday life.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“Gage’s doctor (Dr John Harlow) and friends reported that he had become more impulsive and less able to control his anger after the accident.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“The Id exists in our unconscious mind and represents our instinctual, biological urges.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“American psychologist Philip Zimbardo (1933–) went on to examine the effect that a very specific environment has on a person—that of a prison.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“From further case studies and by using new brain imaging techniques, we now know that the frontal lobe (which had been damaged in Gage’s case) is indeed linked to controlling our impulses, which can vary from resisting the urge to devour another biscuit to the compulsive behaviors that are seen in disorders such as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and addiction.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“Cognitive psychology: The human mind acts like a computer, with input from the environment, internal mental processes, and behavioral output.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) is arguably the most famous psychologist of all. The image of Freud psychoanalysing a patient while they recline on a couch is synonymous with psychological therapy.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“He opened the first official Institute for Experimental Psychology in Leipzig, Germany in 1879 and pioneered the use of introspection as a research method.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“In ancient Greece, philosophers discussed subjects that we would commonly associate with psychology today, such as the soul, the mind, and the nature of thought.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“It seemed that an authority figure could indeed influence a person to commit horrendous acts, simply by stating their authority and suggesting that they would take ultimate responsibility for what took place.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“There are four lobes that make up the human brain: the frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital lobes.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“The word “dendrite” comes from the Greek meaning “tree”, as they are small branches projecting from a neuron that connect with the axon terminals of neighboring neurons.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“Psychology has gone through “phases,” in the same way all fields of research do, but often psychologists are expanding on, or reacting to, the work of their predecessors.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“Implanted man-made diamonds may be able to bridge missing or damaged neural connections, due to the diamonds’ superconducting properties, allowing the electrical nerve impulse to be carried forward where the neural pathway has been broken. This could possibly even allow us to reverse neurodegenerative disorders.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“The frontal lobe is responsible for our executive functions, the higher-level processes that allow us to make decisions, think creatively and initiate or inhibit actions. In the temporal lobe, memories and language are processed for understanding, while the parietal lobe helps us perceive, interpret, and make sense of the world. Finally, the occipital lobe processes information from our eyes, splitting it into smaller categories such as visual tone, pattern, and distance.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“In the 1890s, Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936) accidentally stumbled upon a vital learning theory, in what would go on to be perhaps one of the most well-known psychological experiments of all time.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“Disequilibrium: A child sees another animal with wings, feathers, and a beak. It’s a pigeon. They say to their parent, “Look! A duck.” Their parent tells them no, that is a different type of bird called a pigeon. The child is experiencing disequilibrium—their schema for a duck didn’t work this time.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“Evolutionary psychologists would suggest that current human behavior is a response to the pressures we were under during our early evolution, and many of our behaviors were developed through natural selection to help us survive in our environment of evolutionary adaptiveness.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“It was around 2,500 years ago that Hippocrates first argued that it was the brain that was responsible for human thought and consciousness, and not the heart, as Aristotle believed.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“Classical conditioning is essentially learning through association.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“The third principle demands that psychologists act responsibly.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“The start of World War One halted the work of the IPA and Freud. In 1933, the Nazis began burning copies of Freud’s published works and Freud fled Vienna for London, where a replica of his Vienna consulting room was set up for him to continue practicing.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“Freud was one of the first to highlight the relationship between childhood experiences and adult behavior, and one of the first to connect our behavior with innate, biological drives.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“Our memories can be altered by suggestion and, as was shown in one famous study by American psychologists Elizabeth Loftus (1944–) and John Palmer (date of birth unknown), a single word can dramatically alter our recall of even a very memorable event.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“Skinner actually had little interest in becoming a psychologist until he was in his early twenties and happened to read an essay written by H. G. Wells, which appeared in Time magazine.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“Equilibrium: The child now has a more accurate schema for a duck as well as one for birds.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

“In the UK, ethical guidelines in psychology are advised by the British Psychological Society (BPS); and similar organizations exist in other countries.”
― Emily Ralls, The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know