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Becomes the first American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology. Hall eventually founds the American Psychological Association.
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Founds the first experimental psychology lab in Leipzig, Germany. The event is considered the starting point of psychology as a separate science.
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1881 --Wundt forms the professional journal Philosophische Studien (Philosophical Studies)
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Opens the first experimental psychology lab in the United States at John Hopkins University.
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Published his famous Über das Gedächtnis ("On Memory"), which was later translated to English as Memory. A Contribution to Experimental Psychology. In the work, he describes his learning and memory experiments that he conducted on himself.
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Begins providing therapy to patients in Vienna, Austria.
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Becomes the first professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Publishes Mental Tests and Measurements, marking the beginning of the practice of psychological assessment.
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Forms the American Psychological Association (APA), which initially has just 42 members.
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Completes her training under Tichener
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Forms the first psychology lab devoted to psychodiagnosis.
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Develops the Law of Effect.
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Publishes Interpretation of Dreams.
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Is formed on this date.
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Is elected the first woman president of the American Psychological Association.
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Publishes his findings on classical conditioning.
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Publishes The Psychology of Dementia Praecox.
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Publishes Animal Intelligence. The article leads to the development of the theory of operant conditioning.
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Begins to depart from Freudian views and develops his own theories, which are eventually known as analytical psychology.
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Publishes Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It. The work helped establish behaviorism, which viewed human behavior arising from conditioned responses.
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Publishes work on repression.
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Then president of the APA, Robert Yerkes writes the Alpha and Beta Tests for the Army to test intelligence.
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Publishes Psychology, From the Standpoint of a Behaviorist.
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Publish research the classical conditioning of fear with their subject, Little Albert.
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Gestal Psychology is brought to America with the publication of Wolfgang Kohler’s Perception: An Introduction to the Gestalt Theory.
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Becomes the foremost cognitive theorist with the publication of his work The Moral Judgment of Children.
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Publishes the Thematic Appreception Test (TAT).
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Developed client-centered therapy and publishes Counseling and Psychotherapy. His approach encourages respect and positive regard for patients.
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is published.
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Publishes Motivation and Personality, describing his theory of a hierarchy of needs. He also helps found humanistic psychology.
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Publishes The Nature of Love, which describe his experiments with rhesus monkey's on the importance of attachment and love.
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Conducts his now famous Bobo doll experiment.
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First describes the concept of observational learning to explain personality development.
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Publishes Obedience to Authority, which presented the findings of his famous obedience experiments.
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The DSM-III is published.
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Publishes On Nature, Use and Acquisition of Language.
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Publishes an article in Science introducing his theory of how children acquire language, which he later details further in his book The Language Instinct.
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The DSM-IV is published.
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Genetic researchers finish mapping human genes. Scientists hope to one day isolate the individual genes responsible for different diseases.
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Publishes The Blank Slate, arguing against the concept of tabula rasa.
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Published A History of Modern Experimental Psychology[74]
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The draft of DSM-5 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) was distributed for comment and critique.
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2013 - On April 2 U.S. President Barack Obama announced the 10-year BRAIN Initiative to map the activity of every neuron in the human brain.
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The DSM-5 was published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
