Advances in Pyschology

By nandi25
  • 387 BCE

    Plato

    -comes up with idea that brain is the mechanism of both biological and physiological mental processing
  • Phillipe Pinel

    Advocates for better treatment for mentally ill patients,since most mental patients were overlooked by society
  • Phineas Gage

    First brain injury survivor, an iron pole pierced his brain and his personality changed after.
  • G Stanley

    First Pyschology lab in the US created
  • Alfred Binet

    Forms first psychology lab for psychology diagnosis.
  • Interpretation of Dreams

    Sigmund Freud-Interpretation of dreams states that the unconscious mind is greater than what most people think
  • Mary Whiton Calkins

    Strived for equality for women and became first woman to be president of the American Psychological Association
  • John Watson

    Created school of behaviorism which studied human and animal behaviors
  • Lobotomy

    -Lobotomy surgery was used to treat mental patients, many believed the mind and the brain were connected.
  • Carl Rogers

    Practiced client centered therapy which pushed for more humanistic psychology towards patients.
  • Maslows Theory

    Hierarchy of needs by Maslow,shows how human mind develops and the needs every human longs to have
  • Nature of Love

    -Nature of love in rhesus monkeys by Harry Harlow
  • Linguistics

    Psycholinguistics-Described how humans learning a language affected their brains especially younger children
  • Thorndike

    Studied animal relationships with the human brain
  • Attachment Theory

    Has not been proved, but states that for a child to be successful they need to have a positive relationship with someone.
  • Mental Dysfunctional

    Genetic Researchers map out the chromosomes responsible for mental dysfunction.
  • Simon Baron Cohen

    The Essential Difference between man and women, states that autism is a form of maleness.
  • Simon Levay

    -argues that sexual orientation starts from birth