PSYCHOLOGY TIMELINE

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1950s

1900s

1800s

GREEK PHILOSOPHY

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History of Psychology

• Psychology didn’t have any development in the time of Ancient Greeks.
• It didn’t even have a name.
• It was an offshoot of biology and physics.

GREEK PHILOSOPHY

• Many paradigms were created that explain why we have different approaches in psychology nowadays.
• Psychoanalysis started to experiment on conscious and unconscious behaviors, specially Freud and Carl Jung.
• The iceberg analogy was craeted.
• Pavlov and B.F. Skinner studied stimulus-response relationships

1900s

• Sociocultural psychology was developed.
• Brain imagery was born.
• MRI scanners allowed humanity to see a brain for the first time.
• Cognitive neuroscience was really important during this time

1970s

• In this year cognitive psychology was developed.
• Psychology started to be an experimental science.
• In 1876 Whilem Wundt opened a psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig.
• Whilem Wund was seen as the father of experimental psychology.

1800s

• This moment was critical for cognitive psychology, as they started studying human mind processes like memory, thought processes, decisions, emotions and many more.

1950s