Psychology timeline

Timeline

Since XIX Century

Psychology Timeline

1870

Herbert Spencer published "Principles of Psychology"

Wilhelm Wundt published "Principles of physiological Psychology" (first textbook of experimental psychology

1874

1878

G. Stanley Hall first experimental psychology laboratory In USA (John Hopkins University).

1879

Wilhelm Wundt first laboratory for experimental psychology in Leipzig, Germany. (Founder of structuralism.)

1886

Sigmund Freud began offering therapy sessions in Vienna, Austria.

James Mckeen Cattell published "Mental tests and Mesurements" marking the advent of psychological assessments.

1888

1890

William James published "Principles of psychology" stating the functionalism viewpoint for the first time.

1892

G. Stanley Hall forms the American Psychological Association

1896-97

Lightner Witmer established:- First psychological clinic - First journal of Clinical psychology - Founded the first clinical hospital school In the USA.

Edward Titchener named the "structuralism"

1898

1898

Edward Thorndike developed the "Law of effect"

1900

Sigmund Freud published "Interpretation of Dreams" marking the beginning of psychoanalytic thought.

1906

IIvan Pavlov published "learning through association"

Edward Thorndike published "Animal Intelligence" leading to the operant conditioning theory.

1911

1912

Max Wertheimer published "Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement" leading to gestal psychology.

1913

- Carl Jung developed analytical psychology.- John B. Watson established the concept of behaviorism and published "Psychology as the Behaviorist views"

1932

Jean Piaget published "the moral judgement of the child"and became the foremost cognitive theorist.

Carl Rogers developed the client-centered therapy

1942

1952

American Psychological Association published the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM.

1954

Abraham Maslow published "Motivation and Personality" which describes the hierarchy of needs. Founder of humanistic psychology.

1961

Albert Bandura bobo doll experiment, that described child behavior in 3 things: observation, imitation, and modeling.

Albert Bandura described agression through the concept of observational learning.

1963

1974

Stanley Milgram published "obedience and Authority" that described the obedience experiments.

1990

Noam Chomsky published " On the Nature, use, and Acquisition of Language" states that children learn languages without noticing it.

2013

American Psychological Association published its fifth edition of DSM, removing "gender identity disorder" and changing it to "gender dysphoria".

2014

John O'Keefe, May Britt Moser and Edvard Moser win a Nobel prize for discovering cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain (key to memory and navigation)

Reference:James Luis Leynes. (2022, 31 agosto). Historical timeline of psychology [Vídeo]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV4u_diqd3Q