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History of Psychology

By Jshelton103

  • First psychology laboratory

    First psychology laboratory
    In 1879 Wilhelm Wundt, first experimental laboratory in psychology at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

  • First doctorate in psychology

    First doctorate in psychology
    The first ever doctarate of Psychology was given to Joseph Jastrow,who also later serves as president of the American Psychological Association in 1900.

  • First woman president of the APA

    First woman president of the APA
    Mary Whiton Calkins was the first woman president of the APA,(The American Psychological Association).

  • IQ tests developed

    IQ tests developed
    Alfred Binet was the first person to create and intelegance test,he was also a French psychologist.

  • First African American doctorate in psychology

    First African American doctorate in psychology
    Francis Sumner is the first African American man to recive a doctorate in psychology. Sumner later serves as chair of the Howard University psychology department.

  • Nazi persecution of psychologists

    Nazi persecution of psychologists
    When the Nazis gains control of the government in Germany, scholars in psychology are persecuted, whose books are banned and burned in public rallies, move to Britain or the United States

  • First lobotomy in the United States

    First lobotomy in the United States
    Walter Freeman performs first frontal lobotomy in the United States.

  • First drug to treat depression

    First drug to treat depression
    Studies how that Imiparimine would help lessen the effects of depression. The FDA approves its use in the United States under the name Tofranil.

  • Thorazine tested

    Thorazine tested
    The anti-psychotic drug chlorpromazine is tested on a patients and it becomes widely prescribed.

  • Homosexuality removed from DSM

    Homosexuality removed from DSM
    After a while discussing it,Pyshcologists decided that,sexual orientation "does not necessarily constitute a psychiatric disorder."

  • PET scanner tested

    PET scanner tested
    PET (Positron Emission Tomography) is first tested by tracing chemical markers.

  • Standardized IQ tests found discriminatory

    Standardized IQ tests found discriminatory
    The Iq tests found that it only judged the White Majority. Obviously becoming a problem

  • Insanity Defense Reform Act passed

    Insanity Defense Reform Act passed
    This act was passed after John Hinckley, Jr.'s acquittal for the Reagan assassination attempt. Making it way harder for anyone to be pronounced innocent because of insanity.

  • Sequencing of the Human Genome

    Sequencing of the Human Genome
    The rough draft for the Human Genome was created.