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Rene Descartes Born
In response to the question "Are the mind and body the same or different?" Rene Descartes came up with Cartesian Dualism. This idea is that the mind and body are different, but the mind can influence the body and vice versa. This can be considered one of the many phisophical predecessors to modern psychology. http://www.biography.com/people/ren-descartes-37613 -
Wilhelm Wundt Born
Wilhelm Wundt is considered the father of psychology as a field of scientific study. This is particularrly true considering that Wundt created the first formal psychological labroatory. http://psychology.about.com/od/profilesofmajorthinkers/p/wundtprofile.htm -
Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalysis
The father of the Psychodynamic Perspective in the field of psychology. This field associated with how the inner psyche and subconcious works is what is most commonly associated with the field of psychology as a whole. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/12/24/sigmund-freud-psychoanalysis-and-the-war-on-the-west/ -
John B. Watson's Behaviorism
The father of the behavioral perspective of psychology. http://www.glogster.com/rae1113/john-b-watson/g-6l8humipiseolhhp5nj41a0 -
Wilhelm Wundt Founds Psychology Laboratory in Leipzeg, Germany
This pyschological laboratory helped pave the way for psychology to be seriously considered as a scientific field. http://www.socsci.ru.nl/ardiroel/Rts.htm -
Start of Stanford Prison Experiment
The Stanford Prison Experiments helped bring questions about morality and ethics out into the open about prisons aw well as shaping how people performed psychological experiments in the future. http://www.esdaw.eu/stanford-prison-experiment.html -
End of Stanford Prison Experiment
The Stanford Prison Experiments helped bring questions about morality and ethics out into the open about prisons as well as shaping how people performed psychological experiments in the future. http://www.simplypsychology.org/zimbardo.html -
Abraham Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs
Abraham Maslow's created a table from the idea that there are needs that are greater than others which influence our motives. This helped develop psychology in a direction like none other like it ever before. http://sites.psu.edu/rclerin/2015/04/10/hierarchy-of-needs/ -
Skinner's Operant Conditioning
A system based on determining one's behavior based on the reaction of what the bahavior caused. A series of reactions created from a certain behavior determines whether or not the behavior will be repeated in the future. This completely changed how behavioral psychology works. http://sites.psu.edu/rclerin/2015/04/10/hierarchy-of-needs/ -
Stanley Milgrim's Electric Shock Experiments
His shock experiments led to other experiments similar to it which led to questions about how far people are willing to go to hurt another human being. This also led to the Stanford Prison Experiments, which eventually led to better and more ethical ways that social experiments are done. http://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html
