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Functionalism
Egon Burnswik represented functionalism, which was the philosophy of the mind -
Creation of experimental Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt was a German philosopher and psychologyst, he created the experminetal psychology, and in 1879 he created the first formal laboratory for psychological research at the University of Leipzig. -
Stanley Hall Laboratory
Stanley Hall stablished a laboratory in Baltimore, Maryland. -
Psychoanalysis
Sigmud Freud (1856-1939), was the father of psychoanalysis. -
Structuralism
The main proposal of structuralism is to analyze the adult mind. -
APA foundation
The APA was founded by Stanley Hall. -
First IQ tests
The first IQ tests were developed by Alfred Binet (1857-1911). -
The behavioral manifesto
Jhon B Watson published it. -
Rorschach test
The Rorschach test is a personality test in which a person is showed 10 ink stains and depending on what they see, they can analyze the person's personality. -
Electoencephalography
Hans Berger invented the electocencephalography, which is a test used to measure the electrical activity in the brain and can help to diagnose diseases like epilepsy. -
Gestalt
The Berlin School founded the Getstalt. Its main assumptions are to maintain meaningful perceptions in this chaotic world. -
The Behaviour of Organisms
B.F Skinner published this book. -
US army selection system
The US army selected its men by performing mental tests and certain interviews in them. -
Ethical Standards of Psychologists
The American Psychologists Association published it. -
The magical number seven plus minus two
This article was published by the cognitive psychologist George A. Miller, the article is about memory, short term memory and one-dimensional absolut judgement. -
FDA
In 1964 the FDA approved the use of illegal substances, used for clinical studies. -
Lithium approval
Lithium was approved by the FDA in 1970, this drug is used to treat depression and bipolar dissorder. -
PET scans
PET stands for Poistron Emission Tomography. The first PET scan was taken around 1975. -
Selfish Gene
This book was written by Richard Dawkins and published in 1976. It has a spark in the academic community because it created lots of debating. -
Standarised tests
These tests were considered discriminatory in 1979 because kids were getting different educations based on the results of these test. Nowadays, all the kids have the same education -
Acts of meaning
Jerome Brunner published this book in 1990, it talks about how the mind is a creator of meaning and not an information processor, as many people see it.
