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Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt founded the first experimental psychology lab in Leipzig, Germany, marking the moment psychology becomes its own field of study. -
Structuralism
It is a general theory of culture and methodology that implies that elements of human culture must be understood by way of their relationship to a broader system. Structuralism suggests that there is a specific structure or framework that makes up the total concept. The structuralist approach implies that in order for anyone to fully understand a concept such as linguistics, they first must understand the subsets and how these fit into the overarching structure -
Stanley Hall
The 1st psychology lab in the U.S.A. was established in 1883 at Johns Hopkins University by G. Stanley Hall. -
Functionalism
Functionalism in the philosophy of mind is the doctrine that what makes something a mental state of a particular type does not depend on its internal constitution, but rather on the way it functions, or the role it plays, in the system of which it is a part. John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, Harvey A. Carr, and especially James Rowland Angell were the main proponents of functionalism at the University of Chicago. -
APA founded
July 1892, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States -
IQ testings
The first ever IQ test was developed by the French Psychologist Alfred Binet in 1904. -
Father of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud -
Gestalt
Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Köhler founded Gestalt psychology in the early 20th century. Its main assumptions are origin and history. -
The behavioral manifesto
Published by John B. Watson in 1913 -
US army soldier selection
It can be seen that the US army selects their soldiers through a series of psychological tests that relate to different parts of the brain. Test 1: this assesses the ability of army recruits to trace the path of a maze. Test 2: This test assesses the ability to do cube analysis. Test 3: this test assesses pattern analysis ability using an X-O series. Among others. -
Rorschach Personality Test
Projective test. The basic idea of this is that when a person is shown an ambiguous, meaningless image (ie an inkblot) the mind will work hard at imposing meaning on the image. That meaning is generated by the mind. -
Electroencephalograph
In 1929, the German psychiatrist and scientist Hans Berger published and conducted the results of the first electroencephalograph (EEG), which is an instrument that measures and records brain-wave patterns. -
The Behavior of Organisms
The Behavior of Organisms, by B.F: Skinner is set out the parameters for the discipline that would come to be called the experimental analysis of behavior (EAB) and Behavior Analysis. -
Ethical Standards of Psychologists
The first committee on ethical standards of psychologists was developed in 1947 and chaired by Edward Tolman. The first version of the ethical standards of psychologists. -
PET scan first testings
The first large-scale use of a human positron imaging device was developed by physicist Gordon Brownell and neurosurgeon William Sweet at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the 1950s -
The magical number seven plus minus two
It was published in 1956 and it is often interpreted to argue that the number of objects an average human can hold in short-term memory -
FDA drug approval
Hexadrol, Cosmegen, Meprobamate, Cortisporin, Dymelor and Lincocin -
Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene is a 1976 book,Dawkins uses the term "selfish gene" as a way of expressing the gene-centred view of evolution,the gene-centred view, it follows that the more two individuals are genetically related, the more sense (at the level of the genes) it makes for them to behave selflessly with each other. -
Standardised tests regarded as discriminatory in 1979
They charged that the tests contained racial and cultural biases, discriminated against black children, and resulted in placing them in classes that subjected them to "stigma, inadequate education, and failure to develop the skills necessary to productive success in our society." In addition, plaintiffs contended that the gross overrepresentation of black children in EMR classes in proportion to their numbers in the student population clearly revealed the racial bias of these IQ tests. -
Jerome Bruner
In 1990, Jerome Bruner published “Acts of Meaning” which included topics such as cognitive psychology and the cognitive revolution. This had major effects as it led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings (by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind). -
Drugs to treat depression approved by the FDA
Celexa, Lexapro, Paxil, Paxil CR, Pexeva, Prozac, Prozac Weekly