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Period: 300 to
Phsycology Events
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350
Aristotle (350 BC)
Aristotle (384–322 BC) was born in Macedon. He started working on phsycological studies in his book De Anima and touches on it in many other shorter stories.in In De Anima Aristotle questions if the same perlis effect everyone or just a particular person and Aristotle also wants to know whether all psychological states are also material states of the body. -
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Socrates(BC)
Socrates concluded that the mind is seperate from the bodyand continues after the body dies, and that knowledge is inate. -
Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes wrote the "Discourse Method" which proposed mind-body internation and the doctrine of innate ideas. -
Francis Bacon
Bacon is considered to be "The Father of Experimental Science". Bacons ideas consisted of a medical-physical account of the composition and operation of spirits specific to human beings, the other is a behavioral account of the character and activities of individual persons. -
John Locke
John Locke said that the mind at birth was a blank slate, rejecting the idea of innate ideas. He wrote "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" which stresses empiricism over speculation. -
Dorthea Dix
She was instrumental in changing the way the mentally ill were treated in the United States. From 1841 to 1881, she actively campaigned to positively change the living situations of the hospitalized mentally ill. -
Charles Darwin
Darwin was the first to pioneer evolutionary psycology. He published "The Orgin of Species by Means of Natural Selection". He contributed majorly to the theory of evolution, the phrase "survival of the fittest". -
G. Stanley Hall
Granville Stanley Hall was a pioneering American psychologist and educator. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory. He also recieved Harvards first degreee based on psycological interests. He also founds the American Psycological Association. -
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm is a psycologist known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology", Wundt founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research at the University of Leipzig. -
Margaret Floy Washburn
Margaret Floy Washburn is a psycologist that was best known for her experimental work in animal behavior and motor theory development. She was the first woman to be granted a PhD in psychology. -
William James
He was the first educator to offer a psychology course in the U.S. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism. -
Mary Whiton Calkins
Mary Whiton was a philosopher and a psycologist. She was a proffesor in psycology and later became the first female president of the American Psycological Assosiation. She also did a study in Standford on dreams. -
Roalie Raynor
In 1920 the American psychologists John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner demonstrated the development of an emotional response in a young boy using classical conditioning techniques. -
EB Titchener
Titchener is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind; structuralism. -
Plato (BC)
Plato was one of the earliest psycologists. He believed in innate ideas and that the brain is the seat of mental processes.
