History of Psychology

  • 1879 – Wilhelm Wundt

    1879 – Wilhelm Wundt
    Wilhelm Wundt founded the first experimental psychology lab in Leipzig in Germany. Since that has happened it was the starting point of psychology as a different science, Also known as 'father of psychology'.
  • Hermann Ebbinghaus

    Hermann Ebbinghaus
    Hermann Ebbinghaus published his famous work Memory, Contribution to Experimental Psychology and he describes his learning and memory experiments that he do on himself.
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud
    Begins providing therapy to patients in Vienna, Austria.
  • William James

    William James
    He publishes the Principles of Psychology.
  • Edward Thorndike

    Edward Thorndike
    1898 - Edward Thorndike develops the Law of Effect. This is a key feature in the development of Skinner's radical BEHAVIOURISM.
  • Sigmund Freud

    Publishes the Interpretation of Dreams.
  • The British Psychological Society is formed

    The British Psychological Society is formed
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  • Alfred Binet

    Alfred Binet publishes the first intelligence test the New Methods for the Diagnosis of the Intellectual Level of Subnormals.
  • Ivan Pavlov

    Ivan Pavlov
    Ivan Pavlov published his findings on classical conditioning.That was the first start of behaviourism.
  • Sigmund Freu

    Sigmund Freud publishes his detailed case study of Little Hans and the Oedipus Complex ‘Analysis of a phobia of a five-year-old boy’
  • Edward Thorndike

    Edward Thorndike publishes Animal Intelligence. The article leads to the development of the theory of operant conditioning.