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Developmental Psychology Timeline

1689

Enlightment Era

1879

1859

Locke defends innate ideas in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Locke and Rosseau proposed that children are psychologically different from adults; increased education.

Darwin released his theory of evolution.

Psyhology as a whole was becoming more recognized as a scientific dicipline with Wundt and James.

Enlightment Era

Late 1800s

1883

1762

The "Nature vs. Nurture" debate helped kickstart the idea of evolution and eventual child psychology.

Darwin's theory helped inspired future developmental psychologists

The Contents of Children's Minds by G. Stanley Hall was released.

Rosseau released the 5 book series Emile: or On Education.

1892

1896

1890s-1900s

1900s

G. Stanley Hall has done a lot more things to help developmental psychology, even finding the American Psychological Association (APA).

Freud created the "seduction hypothesis" where psychoneuroses was caused by early repressed sexual abuse.

Baldwin released his theory on the "Baldwin Effect" to explain social evolution of lifelong trait learning.

Freud's psychosexual theory has been debunked, failing to mention women's psychosexual development, being too vague, and not being possible to test scientifically.

1895

1890s-1900s

1905

1900s

James Sully wrote "Studies of Childhood"

At first, Baldwin's ideas were not widely accepted, but eventually was in the 2000s.

Freud first created his "psychosexual theory" of early childhood.

Despite imporvements to the education system, very few students advanced past grade school.

1909

Late 1910s

1919/1920

1928

Many psychoanalists at the time met for a conference at Clark University. Also dubbed the "Freud Conference"

Behaviorist Watson condicted the infamous "Little Albert" study.

Watson published Psychological Care of Infant and Child.

Behaviorism is a field of psychology known for its controling of behaviors.

1920s

1919/1920

1936

20th Century

Behaviorism became one of the main schools of thoughts, even benefiting developmental psych.

The study created a lot of controversy of ethics in the scientific sphere.

Jean Piaget released his "Cognitive Development"

Developmental psych went through major advancements, leading it to be taken more seriously as a field.

1936

1940s-1950s

1957

1962

With Cognitive Development, Piaget made "5 stages".

With Piaget's influential studies into the child mind, education and childcare started to become more recognized..

Maturation is the study of how the mind changes as a person grows.

Vygotsky released his own "social development theory".

1940s-1950s

1957

1962

1930s

The beginning of a new war, meaning the start of advanced psychological strategies.

The Montessori method of Education began to be popularized in schools.

Vygotsky's theory inspired a focus on collaboration-based learning that lets students learn from interactions with peers and teachers.

With the help of Piaget, Developmental Psych (or Genetic epistemology) has become its own official field of psychology.

1963

1969

20th Century

21st Century

Erikson, against Freud, created his 5 stages of development.

"Attachment theory" is a theory focusing on the 4 different types of attachment a child might have with their parent.

Developmental psychologists were starting to become more interested in more broader issues.

Education is more focused on skill-building in the new era and less on information.

20th Century

1977

21st Century

1963

More children were staying in school and even attending college.

Albert Bandura created the "social cognitive theory".

Parenting is more flexible, more hands-on, and more directed towards children's needs.

With a revolutionary new outlook on the lifespan of a person, Erikson paved the way for more hands-on parenting and learning.