History of Ethics in psychology

  • Trephination
    6500 BCE

    Trephination

    drilling holes in a persons skull to release the demons
  • Wilhelm Wundt Laboratory

    Wilhelm Wundt Laboratory

  • Skinner Operant Conditioning

    Skinner Operant Conditioning

    Formulating his theories of operant conditioning.
    -Using electric shock on animals
  • Nazi Experiments

    Nazi Experiments

  • Nuremburg Code

    Nuremburg Code

  • Milgram

    Milgram

    Electrical shock to humans
    -teacher, student, experimenter
  • Zimbardo

    Zimbardo

    prison experiment
    reasonable people can become unreasonable
  • The Belmont Report

    The Belmont Report

    • difference between therapeutic practice
    • ethical principles
    • fair balance between research