Behaviorism

Ivan Pavlov - Sept. 14th, 1849 - Feb. 27th, 1936

Sep 14, 1849

Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species

Jun 1, 1859

At the end of 1859 Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species explained natural selection in detail and presented evidence leading to increasingly wide acceptance of the occurrence of evolution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution

Reflexes of the Brain was Published

Jun 1, 1863

Ivan Sechenov's Reflexes of the Brain was published. This introduced the concept of inhibatory responses in the central nervous system.

John Watson - Jan. 9th, 1878 - Sept 25th, 1958

Jan 9, 1878

Thorndike developed law of effect

Jun 1, 1898

Edward Thorndike developed the 'Law of Effect' which is part of the social learning theory.

Sigmund Freud presents his concepts of psychoanalysis in a publication entitled "The Interpretation of Dreams."

Jun 1, 1900

B.F. Skinner - March 20th, 1904 - Aug. 18th, 1990

Mar 20, 1904

Pavlov publishes first conditioning studies

Jun 1, 1906

Ivan Pavlov publishes his findings regarding classical conditioning (aka Pavlovian conditioning).

Thorndike: Animal Intelligence

Jun 1, 1911

John B. Watson publishes Psychology as a Behaviorist Views It, launching the influential behaviorism movement

Jun 1, 1913

World War I begins

Jun 1, 1914

Little Albert Experiment

Jun 1, 1920

John B Watson & Rosalie Rayner experiment with clasical conditioning

Tolman presents "a new formula for behaviorism"

Jun 1, 1922

Collapse of the New York Stock Market

Jun 1, 1929

The collapse of the New York Stock Market and causes the depression - depression follows next year in Europe

Skinner publishes his first paper on conditioning

Jun 1, 1930

1932 Jean Piaget: The Moral Judgement of the Child

Jun 1, 1932

Begining of Cognitive theory

Hitler sworn in as Chancellor: basic civil rights suspended "to protect the German people"

Jun 1, 1933

B.F. Skinner publishes Behavior of Organisms, introducing operant conditioning.

Jun 1, 1938

World War II begins

Jun 1, 1939

Psychodynamicss initially developed

Jun 1, 1945

Psychodynamics was initially developed by Ernst von Brücke, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler and Melanie Klein.[6][5] By the mid 1940s and into the 1950s, the general application of the "psychodynamic theory" had been well established.

Edward Thorndike - Aug. 31st - Aug. 9th, 1949

Aug 31, 1949

Bandura introduces the idea of observational learning

Jun 1, 1963

Albert Bandura: Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis

Jun 1, 1973