History of Psychology

By Dany O.
  • 387 BCE

    Mental Process

    Plato says that the brain is the main mechanism of mental processes.
  • Period: 387 BCE to

    The history of Psychology

    From 387 B.C. to 2002
  • Mental illness

    AD Franz Mesmer described his cure for some mental illness, originally named mesmerism and now known as hypnosis.
  • Franz Gall

    Franz Gall wrote about phrenology saying the way a persons head is shaped is how their personality will be like.
  • Paul Broca

    Paul Broca made a discovery that an area in the left frontal lobe plays a key role in language development.
  • Herman Ebbinghaus

    Herman Ebbinghaus introduced the nonsense syllable which means to study memory processes.
  • Sir Francis Galton

    Sir Francis Galton made the technique known as the correlation to better understand of the interrelationships in his intelligence studies
  • Alfred Binet

    Alfred Binet made the first laboratory of psychodiagnosis.
  • Psychology Clinic

    The first psychological clinic was made at the University of Pennsylvania marking the birth of clinical psychology
  • British Psychology

    The British Psychological Society was developed
  • Stanford Binet

    Stanford Binet intelligence test was promulgated in the United States
  • Canadian Psychology

    The Canadian Psychological Associated was made.
  • Jean Piaget

    Jean Piaget published ‘Psychology of Intelligence’ talking about his theories of cognitive development
  • Chlorpromazine

    Chlorpromazine (Thorazine) was first used in the treatment of schizophrenia
  • Abraham Maslow

    Abraham Maslow helped make the Humanistic Psychology and later made his famous Hierarchy of Needs.
  • Alfred Bandura

    Alfred Bandura made the idea of Observational Learning on the development of personality triats
  • Aaron Beck

    Aaron Beck put out a psychological model of depression suggesting that thoughts play a significant role in the development and a maintenance of depression
  • Doctorate in Psychology

    The first Doctorate in Psychology was awarded from The University of Illinois.
  • American Psychology

    American Psychological Society was made
  • First State

    New Mexico became the first state to pass legislation to allow licensed psychologists to prescribe psychotropic medication.
  • Mental Halth

    The mental health parity gets the attention of the White House the leads to President George W. Bush to promote legislation that would guarantee comprehensive mental health coverage.

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