history of psychology

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  • 1896 BCE

    papers

    papers
    Calkins publishes a paper in the Psychological Review extending Ebbinghaus' memory research
  • 1838 BCE

    book

    book
    Elements of Physiology is published by Johannes Müller
  • 400 BCE

    hipprocrates

    hipprocrates
    Hippocrates identifies definite classes of human diseases.

  • twins

    twins
    Francis Galton uses method of twin comparisons

  • dreams

    dreams
    Sigmund Freud Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams

  • new methods

    new methods
    Alfred Binet Publishes New Methods for the Diagnosis of the Intellectual Level of Subnormals. Calkins elected as the first woman president of the American Psychological Association

  • conditioning

    conditioning
    Ivan Pavlov Publishes his findings regarding classical conditioning

  • professor

    professor
    Becomes America's first professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania

  • coverage

    coverage
    The emergence of managed care prompts the APA to become more political, leading to the idea of Prescribing Psychologists and equity in mental health coverage.

  • military

    military
    First Psychologists prescribe medication through the U.S. military’s psychopharmacology program

  • artificial

    artificial
    Deep Blue, the supercomputer at the time, beats the World’s best chess player, Kasparov, marking a milestone in the development of artificial intelligence.

  • e-therapy

    e-therapy
    Psychology advances to the technological age with the emergence of e-therapy.

  • medication

    medication
    Psychologists in Guam gain prescription privileges for psychotropic medication

  • more medication

    more medication
    New Mexico becomes the first state to pass legislation allowing licensed psychologists to prescribe psychotropic medication.

  • white house

    white house
    The push for mental health parity gets the attention of the White House as President George W. Bush promotes legislation that would guarantee comprehensive mental health coverage.

  • civil rights

    civil rights
    The American Psychiatric Association issued official position statements supporting the care and civil rights of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals

  • brains

    brains
    On April 2 U.S. President Barack Obama announced the 10-year BRAIN Initiative to map the activity of every neuron in the human brain

  • disorders

    disorders
    Stanislas Dehaene, Giacomo Rizzolatti, and Trevor Robbins, were awarded the Brain Prize for their research on higher brain mechanisms underpinning literacy, numeracy, motivated behaviour, social cognition, and their disorders

  • journals

    journals
    A team led by Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia published an article in Science that revealed that only 39 of 100 studies published in major psychology journals could be replicated.