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2000 BCE
Aristoteteles and Plato
Where does knowledge come from? One says it's all about what's outside, the other says it's the inside: experience vs. rationalism.
It's a debate that will knock on many other philosophers' minds throughout history. -
Principles of Frenology!
[Early 1800s] Outdated. They all turned out to be more fake than clickbait. -
Sir Francis Galton does statistics!
[1800s] He uses them to measure common trends in groups of people. Interesting. -
Weber and Fechner, and the sensitive threshold!
[1800s] With physics! How elegant! At this point, experimental psychology is just getting warmed up. -
France knows what it's all about!
[Late 1800s] Their contributions were key to position psychology as a serious science as the 20th century arrived. Don't trust me? Ask Paul Broca! -
Modern scientific psychology emerges from Germany!
Scientists such as Wilhelm Wundt and his lab enable it to emerge. -
Classical Conditioning and Pavlov's dogs!
[Late 1800s] The bell rang and they really expected food! Crazy! Behaviourism's first big step into the future. -
Hermann Ebbinghaus studies human memory!
[Late 1800s] With himself. Pretty nifty. -
Freud and Breuer and their studies on hysteria!
And 'psychoanalisis' is born! Freud really liked digging into people's deepest emotions, experiences and thoughts. -
William James doesn't agree with Wundt!
[Early 1900] He rejects his structuralism-related ideas and proposes functionalism, which has to be better, because it's american, you know. -
That was not ethical at all!
The very well-known classical conditioning experiment of scaring the sh*t out of poor Little Albert is carried out by John B. Watson, to prove that not only dogs can have a behavior alteration based on stimuli. In the name of science, why not? -
Humanist psychology takes place!
After WWII, a more philosophically-based approach appeared. The two dudes in the picture are Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. -
Cognitivism ist cooler!
It focused more on the mind's internal processes related to knowledge. The swiss Jean Piaget is shown in the picture.
