Famous Psychologists

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    Phineas Gage suffers brain damage

  • Paul Broca discovers Broca's area

  • Wilhelm Wundt founded the first psychology laboratory

  • The first psychology laboratory is set up at Johns Hopkins University

  • William James publishes Principles of Psychology

  • Margaret Floy Washburn earns her Ph.D. in psychology

  • Ivan Pavlov publishes on Classical Conditioning (

  • Edward Thorndike publishes work on animal intelligence

  • Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams

  • William Stern develops the IQ formula

  • John B. Watson publishes Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It

  • Jean Piaget publishes The Language and Thought of the Child

  • B.F. Skinner publishes The Behavior of Organisms

  • Karen Horney proposes the social-cultural perspective

  • Erik Erikson publishes Childhood and Society

  • The Code of Ethics for Psychologists is created

  • Abraham Maslow founds Humanistic Psychology (1943–1950s)

  • Carl Rogers publishes On Becoming a Person

  • Howard Gardner introduces Multiple Intelligences

  • DSM V is published