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History of Psychology

  • 387 BCE

    Plato

    Plato
    Plato thought that the brain was the mechanism of mental processes.
  • PP

    PP
    Philippe Pinel released the first mental patients from confinement to find more help for the mentally ill
  • The first psychology Laboratory

    The first psychology Laboratory
    at the university of Leipzig Wilhelm Wundt opened the first laboratory for psychology
  • first U.S psychology laboratory

    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

    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

    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 first women president of the APA
    The APA elects Mary Calkins as the first female president in the APA
  • IQ test developed

    IQ test developed
    Alfred Binet and Theodore simon developed a scale of general intelligence based on your mental age
  • Psychoanalyst visit Clark University

    Psychoanalyst visit Clark University
    Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung visit the United States for a psychoanalyst symposium at clark university
  • Behaviorism

    Behaviorism
    John B. Watson publishes "Psychology as Behavior," which would be launched as behavioralism
  • First African American doctorate in psychology

    First African American doctorate in psychology
    Francis Cecil sumner earns a phd in psychology at Clark university
  • Nazi persecution of psychologists

    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
    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

    E- therapy
    Psychology advances with technology which would emergence e-therapy
  • New Mexico

    New Mexico
    New Mexico becomes the first state to pass legislation which allows licensed psychologists to prescribe psychotropic medication