#psychology

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#beginning #developmental #epistemology #genetic #never

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#explain #genetic #higher #how #judged

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#logic #more #particularly #powerful #psychology

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#bump #describes #essential #human #investigates

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 #concepts #descriptive #discussing #faculties

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#i #majored #modified #psychology

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#century #digest #mid #psychology #state

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#applicable #case #exclusively #involve #languages

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#bad #believe #childhoods #evil #i

I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it. ↗

— Lindsey Shaw

#am #become #business #endearing #gotten