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Plato says that the brain is the main mechanism of mental processes.
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From 387 B.C. to 2002
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AD Franz Mesmer described his cure for some mental illness, originally named mesmerism and now known as hypnosis.
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Franz Gall wrote about phrenology saying the way a persons head is shaped is how their personality will be like.
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Paul Broca made a discovery that an area in the left frontal lobe plays a key role in language development.
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Herman Ebbinghaus introduced the nonsense syllable which means to study memory processes.
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Sir Francis Galton made the technique known as the correlation to better understand of the interrelationships in his intelligence studies
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Alfred Binet made the first laboratory of psychodiagnosis.
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The first psychological clinic was made at the University of Pennsylvania marking the birth of clinical psychology
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The British Psychological Society was developed
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Stanford Binet intelligence test was promulgated in the United States
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The Canadian Psychological Associated was made.
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Jean Piaget published ‘Psychology of Intelligence’ talking about his theories of cognitive development
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Chlorpromazine (Thorazine) was first used in the treatment of schizophrenia
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Abraham Maslow helped make the Humanistic Psychology and later made his famous Hierarchy of Needs.
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Alfred Bandura made the idea of Observational Learning on the development of personality triats
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Aaron Beck put out a psychological model of depression suggesting that thoughts play a significant role in the development and a maintenance of depression
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The first Doctorate in Psychology was awarded from The University of Illinois.
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American Psychological Society was made
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New Mexico became the first state to pass legislation to allow licensed psychologists to prescribe psychotropic medication.
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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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