-
Period: to
Wilhelm Wundt
German born and the first scientist to be referred to as a Psychologist. Wundt viewed psych as a scientific study of conscious experience, and he believed that the goal of psychology was to identify components of consciousness and how those components combined to result in our conscious experience. -
Period: to
Charles Sanders Pierce
American scientist who helped establish functional psych -
Period: to
William James
helped establish psych as a discipline and known as the father of American psych with his theories of functionalism -
Period: to
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov studied a form of learning behavior called a conditioned reflex, in which an animal or human produced an unconscious response to a stimulus that the experimenter associated with the original stimulus. -
Period: to
Sigmund Freud
- one of the most influential and well-known figures in psychology’s history
- developed the psychoanalytic theory
-
Period: to
John Dewey
helped establish functional psych and is a prominent american scholar -
Principles of Physiological Psychology
Famous book by Wilhelm Wundt published in 1873. -
Period: to
John B. Watson
Influential American psychologist. He thought that the study of the consciousness was flawed and focused directly on observable behavior and try to bring that behavior under control. (Behaviorism) -
Wundt establishes Psych Lab
He establishes this psych lab at the Uni. at Leipzig in 1879 where he and his students conducted experiments. Ex. reaction times. -
Psych becomes accepted as its own academic discipline
(late 1800s) Before this time, the workings of the mind were considered under the auspices of philosophy. -
Period: to
Max Wertheimer
one of 3 German psychologists who immigrated to the US to escape Nazi Germany.
- credited with introducing psychologists in the United States to various Gestalt principles. -
Period: to
Kurt Koffa
one of 3 German psychologists who immigrated to the US to escape Nazi Germany.
- credited with introducing psychologists in the United States to various Gestalt principles. -
Period: to
Wolfgang Kohler
one of 3 German psychologists who immigrated to the US to escape Nazi Germany.
- credited with introducing psychologists in the United States to various Gestalt principles. -
Margaret Floy Washburn is awarded the doctorate degree in psychology
In 1894, Margaret Floy Washburn was the first woman awarded the doctoral degree in psychology. She wrote The Animal Mind: A Textbook of Comparative Psychology, and it was the standard in the field for over 20 years. -
The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology
John Dewey's paper that is considered the first major work of functionalism -
Period: to
B.F. Skinner
like Watson, Skinner was a behaviorist and concentrated on how behavior was affected by its consequences. -
Period: to
Abraham Maslow
American psychologist best known for the hierarchy of human needs in motivating behavior -
Francis Cecil Sumner receives PhD in psychology
1920, Francis Cecil Sumner was the first African American to receive a PhD in psychology. -
Ulric Neisser publishes core textbook in psych
Ulric Neisser published the first textbook entitled Cognitive Psychology, which served as a core text in cognitive psychology courses around the country -
Association for Psychological Science is founded
It seeks to advance the scientific orientation of psychology. Its founding resulted from disagreements between members of the scientific and clinical branches of psychology within the APA.