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History of Psych

  • Gustav Fechner - Absolute Threshhold/ Differential Threshhold

    Gustav Fechner - Absolute Threshhold/ Differential Threshhold

    had a connection about the mind and body, came up with the concept of absolute threshhold, differential thresholds
  • Herbert Spencer -The Principles of Psychology

    Herbert Spencer -The Principles of Psychology

    later used by willliam james as first textbook in psychology course at Harvard
  • Charles Darwin  - On the Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species

    published theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species
  • Ebbinghaus - Learning and Memory

    Ebbinghaus - Learning and Memory

    first to experiment on learnign and memory in humans, 3 years before wundt's labratory he purchesed the book Elements of Psychophysics altering his thinking
  • Wilhelm Wundt - Leipzig laboratory

    Wilhelm Wundt - Leipzig laboratory

    created the first experimental psychology labratory in Germany
  • G. Stanley Hall - APA Founder

    G. Stanley Hall - APA Founder

    founded the American Journal of Psychology
  • William James - Functional Psychology

    William James - Functional Psychology

    "psychology is a science of mental life" phenomena and conditions described in detail as key terms
  • C. Lloyd Morgan - Law of Parsimony

    C. Lloyd Morgan - Law of Parsimony

    created law of parsimony from a simular concept off of Wundt's work
  • Edward B. Tichener - An outline of Psychology

    Edward B. Tichener - An outline of Psychology

    first book published An outline of Psychology, created the school of thought known as structuralism alongside Wundt
  • Lightner Witmer - Clinical Psych

    Lightner Witmer - Clinical Psych

    first psychology clinic available
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    More Books - Tichener

    four volume Experimental Psychology: a manual of labratory practice, Princicples of Physiological Psychology,
  • John Dewey - Reflex Arc

    John Dewey - Reflex Arc

    article "The Reflex Arc Concept of Psychology" published in psychological review
  • Thorndike - Law of Effect

    Thorndike - Law of Effect

    created the now well known law of effect, later to be used by Pavlov in creating his law of reinforcement
  • Pavlov - Law of Reinforcement

    Pavlov - Law of Reinforcement

    established the law of reinforcement
  • John Watson - Chair of Psychological Review

    John Watson - Chair of Psychological Review

    became the chair of the Psychological Review after Baldwin stepped down 1915
  • Watson and McDougall Debate

    Watson and McDougall Debate

    met at the psychology club in Washington D.C., 464 APA members present, McDougall declared winner
  • Karl Lashley - Brain Mechs and Intelligence

    Karl Lashley - Brain Mechs and Intelligence

    developed the law of mass action as well as equipotentiality in his book "Brain Mechanisms and Intelligence"