Origins of Psychology

  • Aristotle
    300 BCE

    Aristotle

    Wrote the first known text in the history of psychology - para psyche
  • Aristotle
    300 BCE

    Aristotle

    Proposed our mind was our primary reason for existence and our soul gave us the ability to create
  • Aristotle
    300 BCE

    Aristotle

    Believed the mind was blank at birth and life experiences would define the formation of the mind
  • Plato
    300 BCE

    Plato

    Used the word 'Psyche' to describe both the mind and soul to develop human behavior reasoning and impulses
  • Plato
    300 BCE

    Plato

    Proposed that one human psyche was the set of all knowledge and the mind was imprinted with all the knowledge it needed
  • Plato
    300 BCE

    Plato

    Covered work called the republic in which a healthy balanced mind lead to the expression of personality
  • Rene Descartes

    Rene Descartes

    Wrote 'the world' his first systematic presentation of his natural philosophy
  • Rene Descartes

    Rene Descartes

    Meditations on first philosophy 'i think therefore i am'
  • Rene Descartes

    Rene Descartes

    Wrote a latin textbook called principles of philosophy which was brought in to universities
  • John Locke

    John Locke

    Spoken an essay concerning human understanding which outlined a theory of human knowledge identity and selfhood
  • John Locke

    John Locke

    Had theories that developed and refined on 'two treatises of government'
  • John Locke

    John Locke

    Produced his contribution to the philosophy of education 'that all human knowledge derives from the senses and that therefore there can be no knowledge that precedes observation'
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin

    Published origin of species 'survival of the fittest'
  • Wilhelm Wundt

    Wilhelm Wundt

    Wrote lectures on the mind of humans and animals
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin

    Studied the expression of the emotions in man and animals
  • Wilhelm Wundt

    Wilhelm Wundt

    Wrote 'the principles of physiological psychology'
  • Wilhelm Wundt

    Wilhelm Wundt

    Opened the institute for experimental psychology at the university of Leipzig in Germany
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud

    Published 'the psychopathology of everyday life'
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud

    Traveled to America to give lectures on psychoanalysis
  • John B Watson

    John B Watson

    Became a professor of psychology at John Hopkins university
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud

    Researches into soldiers traumatized by the war followed by publishing 'civilization and its discontents' in 1930
  • John B Watson

    John B Watson

    Became vice president for J Walker Thompson agency and written books about the control over human emotions
  • John B Watson

    John B Watson

    Published the psychological care of infant and child
  • Carl Rogers

    Carl Rogers

    Became director of the child study department for RSPCC (Rochester Society for the prevention of cruelty to children)
  • Carl Rogers

    Carl Rogers

    Became professor of clinical psychology at Ohio state university
  • Abraham Maslaw

    Abraham Maslaw

    Became chairman of psychology at Branders university
  • Carl Rogers

    Carl Rogers

    Became the head of departments psychology and psychiatry at the university of Wisconsin
  • Abraham Maslow

    Abraham Maslow

    Published american association of humanistic psychology
  • Abraham Maslow

    Abraham Maslow

    Published the psychology of science