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Galen
Galen was schooled in all the psychological systems of the day -- Platonic, Aristotelian, Stoic, and Epicurean -
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Aretaeus of Cappadocia
I don't know. Wikipedia said so. -
Jan 1, 1021
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen)
began to carry out experiments in areas related to body and the nafs. In his Book of Optics, for example, he examined visual perception and what we now call sensation, including variations in sensitivity, sensation of touch, perception of colors, perception of darkness, the psychological explanation of the moon illusion, and binocular vision. -
Feb 18, 1025
Avicenna
In The Canon of Medicine, Avicenna described a number of conditions, including hallucination, insomnia, mania, nightmare, melancholia, dementia, epilepsy, paralysis, stroke, vertigo and tremor. -
Rudolph Goclenius
Scholastic philosopher used the term psychology. Though often regarded as the "origin" of the term, there is conclusive evidence that it was used at least six decades earlier by Marko Marulic. -
Thomas Willis
In his anatomical treatise "De Anima Brutorum", psychology was described in terms of brain function -
G. Stanley Hall
FIrst American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology. Hallf eventually found the American Psychological Association. -
Wilhelm Wundt
Found the first experimental psychology lab in Leipzig, Germany. The event is considered the starting point of psychology as a separate science. -
Wilhelm Wundt again
Formed the professional journal Philosophische Studien (It's german. Deal with it) -
G. Stanley Hall
Opened the first experimental psychology lab in the US at John Hopkins University -
Herman Ebbinghaus
Published his famous Uber das Gedachtnis, which was later translated to English. He described his learning and memory experiments that he conducted on himself. -
I'm gonna stop using pictures now. You have no idea how much effort it takes.
Honestly. It's really tiring. -
Sigmund Freud
Begins providing therapy to patients in Vienna, Austria -
James McKeen Cattell
Becomes the first professor of Psychology at the Uni of Pennsylvania -
G. Stanley Hall (gee this dude does so many things. Stop doing things.)
formed the American Psychological Association -
Alfred Binet
Formed the first psychology lab devoted to psychodiagnosis. -
SIgmund Freud
Published Interpretation of Dreams -
Brits
The British Psychological Society is formed -
Ivan Pavlov
Published findings on classical conditioning. -
Carl Jung
Publishes The Psychology of Dementia Praecox -
Calkins
Published A First Book in Psychology -
Edward Thorndike
Published Animal Intelligence -
Robert Yerkes
Wrote the Alpha and Beta Tests for the Army to test intelligence -
Harry Harlow
Published The Nature of Love -
Albert Bandura
Conducted Bobo doll experiment. -
DSM-III
PUBLISHED!!! -
Noam Chomsky
Published On Nature, Use and Acquisition of Language. -
DSM-IV
PUBLISHED!!!! -
Human genes
Genetic researchers finish mapping human genes -
Steven Pinker
Published The Blank Slate, arguing against the concept of tabula rasa. -
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
Psychological analysis of him anticipates Freud by discovery of the 'sub-conscious' -
Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari
Developed the idea of using clinical psychiatry to trat mentally ill patients -
Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi
Concepts of mental health or "mental hygiene" were introduced by this guy. He also recognized that illnesses can have both psychological and/or physiological causes -
al-Razi (Rhazes)
recognized the concept of psychotherapy and refererred to it as al-'ilaj al-nafs
