Origins Of Psychology

Plato

387 BCE

Plato suggested that the brain is the seat of mental processes. His view on our selfs was that "God created the soul before the body and gave it precedence both in time and value, and made it the dominating and controlling partner"

Dene Descartes

Apr 5, 1650

He died this year. Leaving 'Treatise Of The World' containing his dualistic theory of reality, mind, vs matter.

John Locke

Sep 20, 1689

Published ' An Essay Concerning Human Understanding' which claims that the human mind is a Tabula Rasa at birth.

Charles Darwin

May 28, 1803

Darwin embarked on a 5 year survey voyage around the world on the HMS Beagle, his study of specimens around the globe led him to his theory of Evolution and the process of Natural Selection

Charles Darwin

Sep 28, 1859

He published 'On the Origin of Species' and used the phrase 'Survival of the Fittest'; Evolution of humans and animals that their behaviour changed over successive generations, involving genetics.

Wilhelm Wundt

Jun 25, 1879

Wilhelm Wundt opened the Institute for Experimental Psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany in 1879. This was the first laboratory dedicated to psychology.

Sigmund Freud

Apr 4, 1899

He published 'The Interpretations Of Dreams'. He details his own and his patients his dreams in terms of wish-fullfillments made to the repression of the dream work. He also then sets out theoretical model of mental structure (the unconscious, conscious and pre-conscious)

Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow

Sep 28, 1968

For Rogers focus of psychology is not behaviour, the unconscious, thinking or the human brain but how individuals perceive and interpret events. The humanistic approach is often called the 'The Third Force's .