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387 BCE
Plato
-comes up with idea that brain is the mechanism of both biological and physiological mental processing -
Phillipe Pinel
Advocates for better treatment for mentally ill patients,since most mental patients were overlooked by society -
Phineas Gage
First brain injury survivor, an iron pole pierced his brain and his personality changed after. -
G Stanley
First Pyschology lab in the US created -
Alfred Binet
Forms first psychology lab for psychology diagnosis. -
Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud-Interpretation of dreams states that the unconscious mind is greater than what most people think -
Mary Whiton Calkins
Strived for equality for women and became first woman to be president of the American Psychological Association -
John Watson
Created school of behaviorism which studied human and animal behaviors -
Lobotomy
-Lobotomy surgery was used to treat mental patients, many believed the mind and the brain were connected. -
Carl Rogers
Practiced client centered therapy which pushed for more humanistic psychology towards patients. -
Maslows Theory
Hierarchy of needs by Maslow,shows how human mind develops and the needs every human longs to have -
Nature of Love
-Nature of love in rhesus monkeys by Harry Harlow -
Linguistics
Psycholinguistics-Described how humans learning a language affected their brains especially younger children -
Thorndike
Studied animal relationships with the human brain -
Attachment Theory
Has not been proved, but states that for a child to be successful they need to have a positive relationship with someone. -
Mental Dysfunctional
Genetic Researchers map out the chromosomes responsible for mental dysfunction. -
Simon Baron Cohen
The Essential Difference between man and women, states that autism is a form of maleness. -
Simon Levay
-argues that sexual orientation starts from birth