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387 BCE
Plato
Plato thought that the brain was the mechanism of mental processes. -
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Philippe Pinel released the first mental patients from confinement to find more help for the mentally ill -
The first psychology Laboratory
at the university of Leipzig Wilhelm Wundt opened the first laboratory for psychology -
first U.S psychology laboratory
A student of Wilhelm Wundt named G. Stanley Hall established the first american psychology laboratory at John Hopkins University -
First professor in Psychology
James McKeen earns the first professor of psychology academic name. he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University -
The founding of the APA
G. Stanley Hall finds the American Psychology Association and becomes the APA's first president -
The first women president of the APA
The APA elects Mary Calkins as the first female president in the APA -
IQ test developed
Alfred Binet and Theodore simon developed a scale of general intelligence based on your mental age -
Psychoanalyst visit Clark University
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung visit the United States for a psychoanalyst symposium at clark university -
Behaviorism
John B. Watson publishes "Psychology as Behavior," which would be launched as behavioralism -
First African American doctorate in psychology
Francis Cecil sumner earns a phd in psychology at Clark university -
Nazi persecution of psychologists
After the Nazis gain control of the German government, scholars and researchers in psychology and psychiatry are persecuted -
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is founded by Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio. The AA meetings have a format of a 12 step program to being sober -
E- therapy
Psychology advances with technology which would emergence e-therapy -
New Mexico
New Mexico becomes the first state to pass legislation which allows licensed psychologists to prescribe psychotropic medication
