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In 1879, Wundt founded the first ever laboratory for the purpose of psychological research in Leipzig, Germany where he mainly focussed and studied sensations and feelings by employing experiments such as introspection. Wundt is known as the founder of psychology. -
The first psychology lab in the US was founded in 1883 at Johns Hopkins University bt G. Stanley Hall, Hall was a student of Wundt and therefore wanted to assist in his research. -
James McKeen earned the first academic title of "Professor of Psychology" in 1888 from the University of Pennsylvania. This was the first use of the title in the US - he was also a student of Wilhelm Wundt. -
APA (American psychological association) was founded in July 1892 by a small group of men interested in what they named “the new psychology”. 31 individuals including Stanley Hall. -
Washburn was the first woman to have earned a PhD in psychology in 1894 from the University of Chicago. -
Functionalism: Theory based on the premises on all aspects of society, institutions, ideas, norms etc.
Psychoanalysis: set of psychological theories and therapeutic techniques that have their origin through the work of Sigmund Freud.
Structuralism: intellectual movement and philosophical analysis. People who analyse and explain nature, society and human psychic -
Witmer founded the first psychology clinic in the world in 1896 at the University of Pennsylvania. A few years later he gave the name clinical psychology and began publication of the first scholarly journal in field. -
In 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams written by Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation and discusses what would later become the theory of oedipus complex. -
John B Watson was a psychologist who established the psychological field of behaviourism in 1913. It is a systematic approach to understanding the behaviour of animals and humans (visual). -
Bio-psychology: a branch of psychology that analyses how the brain, neurotransmitters and other aspects of our biological influence over behaviour, thoughts and feelings.
Psychopharmacology: the scientific study of the effects drugs have upon mood, sensation, thinking and behaviour.
Humanistic psychology: psychological perspective that answers Freud’s psychoanalysis theory. -
In 1956, psychologist George A Miller wrote that human memory limitations are not absolute and may overcome when information is deducted into larger units (the way humans think). -
In 1976, evolutionary psychology was introduced. It is a theoretical application to psychology that attempts to explain useful and psychological traits, such as memory, perception of language, as adaptations over time. -
Cognitive neuroscience is the study focusing on neural substances of mental processes. How thinking affects the brain and its processes.