TIMELINE: origin of psychology

Timeline: The origin of psychology

before the psychology

5th and 6th century BC

Before the psychology the phylosophy already existed, having some bases of what it is the philophy, Sócrates and Platón made important aportations that would be a base for the psycology development

the first psychologist

Wilhelm Wunt was the first person to be referred to as a psychologist. He writed a very famous book entitled Principle of Physiological Psychology . Structuralism fell out of favour in 1927

1873

Functionalism

William James was the first psychologist to expose a different perspective on how psychology should be exposed. Key to that theory is the idea that natural selection leads to organisms that are adapted to their environment, including their behaviour.

1876

psychoanalytic theory

Sigmund Freud was a neurologist very influential who theorized that many of his patients’ problems arose from the unconscious mind. Psychoanalytic theory focuses on the role of a person’s unconscious, as well as early childhood experiences, and this particular perspective dominated clinical psychology for several decades

1896

Introducing AMERICANs to some gestalt principles

Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Köhler were three German psychologists credited with introducing psychologists in the United States to various Gestalt principles. Gestalt psychology deals with the fact that although a sensory experience can be broken down into individual parts, how those parts relate to each other as a whole is often what the individual responds to in perception.

20th century

Timeline: origin of psychology

behaiviourism

Behaviourism is largely responsible for establishing psychology as a scientific discipline through its objective methods and especially experimentation. Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and B. F. Skinner were the psychologist that developed this study.

1900s

Humanism

Some psychologists began to form their own ideas that emphasized personal control, intentionality, and a true predisposition for “good” as important for our self-concept and our behaviour. Thus, humanism emerged.Humanism is a perspective within psychology that emphasizes the potential for good that is innate to all humans. Two of the most well-known proponents of humanistic psychology are Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.

1950s

The Cognitive Revolution

New disciplinary perspectives in linguistics, neuroscience, and computer science were emerging, and these areas revived interest in the mind as a focus of scientific inquiry. This particular perspective has come to be known as the cognitive revolution.

1950s

Multicultural Psychology

Culture has important impacts on individuals and social psychology, yet the effects of culture on psychology are under-studied. One weakness in the field of cross-cultural psychology is that in looking for differences in psychological attributes across cultures, there remains a need to go beyond simple descriptive statistics.

2023