History of psychology

By ramonduque

  • Members of the third estate took control over france

    The bastille was assaulted and the declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen was passed

  • Colombias independence

  • Stanley Hall stablished a laboratory

    John Hopkins University, Baltimore

  • Work on scientific literature by Charles Darwin

    Named On the origin of species which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology

  • Paul broca discovered an area in the left cerebral hemisphere

    Is important for speech production, known as brocas area, founding neuropsychology

  • Wilhelm Wundt opened the first experimental psychology laboratory

    At the university of of Leipzig in Germany
    Being a german psychologist, philosopher and profesor.
    He also came up with structuralism, which is a theory of consciousness which is about analyzing adult mind demonstrating how components fit together to develop experiences.

  • gestaltt is a school of psychology created by Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka.

    Gestalt school is based on understanding and perceiving the whole sum of an object rather than its components.
    1. Reification
    2. Multistability
    3. Invariance i

  • APA was discovered by Stanly Hall

  • Functionalism was represented by William James and James Rowland Angell

    Functionalism is the theory that all aspects of society are necessary and necessity should be determined on function rather than aesthetic, furthermore, anything practically designed will inherently be beautiful.

  • Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon developed the first IQ test

  • The scale of general intelligence on the basis of mental age was developed

    Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon developed the scale using standardized tests

  • Sigmund freud Father of psychoanalysis

    Freud impressed several people about the speech he gave at Clark convincing several American physicians about the attributes of psychoanalysis.

  • John B Watson published behavioral manifesto

    The Behavior of Organisms(It set out the parameters for the discipline that would come to be called the experimental analysis of behavior (EAB) and Behavior Analysis.)

  • Franz Ferdinand was killed

    which triggered the first world war

  • Russian revolution

  • US Army select their soldiers

    Applying intelligence test and as a result it produced trend to use more intelligence tests such as college admissions.

  • Us Military began to use intelligence tests

    As a way to select their soldiers and this created a new trend for different organizations such as universities in order to use those intelligence tests.

  • Hans Berger created EEG test

    Electroencephalogram manages electrical activity and helps to diagnose sleep disorders, depths of anesthesia, coma and brain death

  • Hitler invaded Poland and Second world war was triggered

  • PET Scans are tested

    positron emission tomography (PET) scan is an imaging test that helps reveal how your tissues and organs are functioning. A PET scan uses a radioactive drug (tracer) to show this activity. This scan can sometimes detect disease before it shows up on other imaging tests.

  • APA published the Ethical Standards

    The Document was over 170 pages

  • B.F Skinner, American psychologist, outlined the behavioral therapy

    The Behavior of Organisms(It set out the parameters for the discipline that would come to be called the experimental analysis of behavior (EAB) and Behavior Analysis.)

  • "the magical number seven plus minus two" is published

    This idea was put forward by Miller and he called it the magic number 7. He though that short term memory could hold 7 (plus or minus 2 items) because it only had a certain number of “slots” in which items could be stored.

  • Rorschach test were developed

    Psychological test that generates perceptions of inkblots being recorded and analyzed using psychological interpretations, complex algorithms and personality characteristics.

  • FDA approval

    Tricyclic was approved by the FDA to treat depression and OCD

  • Apollo 11 was the first manned mission that landed on the moon

  • Selfish Gene is published

    The gene-centered view of evolution, gene's eye view, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory holds that adaptive evolution occurs through the differential survival of competing genes, increasing the allele frequency of those alleles whose phenotypic trait effects successfully promote their own propagation, with. Promoted research in gene focused DNA studies

  • SSRIs are launched

    Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) were launched. SSRIs ease depression by increasing levels of serotonin in the brain. Serotonin is one of the chemical messengers (neurotransmitters) that carry signals between brain cells. SSRIs block the reabsorption (reuptake) of serotonin in the brain, making more serotonin available.

  • standardised tests regarded as discriminatory

    Mary Amaya sues the system and calls it racial based and not accurate or fir with monirities

  • Jerome Brunner Published "Acts of Meaning"

    Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as "information processor," has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings.