History of Psychology

By katiejanes
  • 1550

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Nicolaus Copernicus published the idea that Earth was not the center of the universe but instead the sun.
  • 1550

    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo Galilei used a telescope to confirm predictions about star placement and movement.
  • 1550

    Rene Descartes

    Rene Descartes disagreed that a link existed between mind and body.

  • The "Science" of Skull Bumps

    Marmaduke B. Sampson wrote "The Science of Skull Bumps" to explain why crime happens.

  • Sir Francis Galton

    Traced ancestry to find more out on heredity.

  • William James

    William James taught the first class in pschology at Harvard University.

  • Wilhelm Wundt

    Wilhelm Wundt started his Laboratory of Psychology in Leipzig, Germany.

  • Wertheimer, Kohler, & Koffka

    Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, & Kurt Koffka disagreed with principles of structuralism and behaviorism.

  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud a physician who practiced in Vienna and was interested in the unconscience mind.

  • Higard

    "Modern science began to emerge by combining philosophers' reflections, logic, and mathematics with observations and inventiveness of practical people" (Hilgard 1987).