History of Psychology

  • Period: 500 to Sep 8, 600

    The Greeks

    In the 5th and 6th century B.C. Greeks begin to study the behavior of humans.
  • Sep 8, 1500

    1500's

    In the 1500's the people of the Renaissance used the idea of experimentation through observation.
  • Sep 8, 1500

    Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)

    In the mid 1500's he published the idea that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe.
  • Sep 8, 1500

    Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

    He used the telescope to make predicitons about star positioning and movement, based off of the work of Copernicus.
  • 17th century

    During the 17th century, dualism - the concept of the mind being seperate from the body, was studied.
  • Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

    He believed that the mind controlled the body's movements, sensations, and perceptions.
  • William James

    the father of psychology who wrote the first textbook on this topic. His main concern was functionalists
  • Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)

    He established modern psychology as a seperate and formal field of study.
  • cells

    During th 19th century, biologists announced the discovery of cells as buliding blocks of life.
  • Sir Francis Galton

    Was a mathematician and scientist who used heredity to describe human behaviors.
  • Sigmund Freud

    was a physician who became interested in the the unconscience mind
  • Humanistic Psychology

    Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Rollo May believed that human nature was evolving and sefl directed.
  • Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)

    A Russian physiologist who charted a course for psychological understanding and investagation.
  • John B. Watson (1878-1958)

    A physcologist that solidified the behaviorist position - that psychology should concern itself only with the observable facts of behavior.
  • Sociocultural Psychology

    The most recent approach to psychology studies the influence of cultural and ethnic similrities and differences on behavior as well as social functioning.