psychology timeline

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    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    Aristotle was a greek philosopher who created a way of philosophy that used morality, aesthetics, logic, science, and politics. Contributed to most fields of human knowledge and founder of many new fields.
  • 347

    Plato

    Plato
    Plato was a Classical greek philosopher, mathmematition and student of socrates.Socrates was often found arguing that knowledge is not empirical, and that it comes from divine insight.
  • 406

    Socrates

    Socrates
    Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He created the Socratic method and Socratice Irony.
  • Rene Decarte

    Rene Decarte
    Rene was a phliosopher, mathematician, and writer who was also called the "Father of Modern Philosophy" HE developed natural sciences. He also formulated the methodic doubt.
  • John Locke

    John Locke
    John Locke was known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism". He also was an English philosopher and physician. One of the enlightenment thinkers and wrote the Voltarie and Rousseau. He stated "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
  • Dorthea Dix

    Dorthea Dix
    Dorthea was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane. She created the first mental asylums and was also an army nurse during the civil war. She was President for Life of the Army Nurses"
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin
    Charles was an English naturalist. He suggested the scientific theory of evolution resulting from a proccess called natural selection. He suggested the idea of selective breeding and the term "survival of the fittest"
  • G. stanley Hall

    G. stanley Hall
    G. Stanley Hall was a pioneering American psychologist and teacher. He was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark university. He studied inheritance of behavior. Hall believed that humans are by nature non-reasoning and instinct driven
  • William James

    William James
    William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. HE was a teacher of a psychology course and wrote books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psycology of religious experience and mysticism and the philospohy of pragmatism.
  • Wilhelm Wundt

    Wilhelm Wundt
    Wilhelm Wundt was a German physician, psychologist, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology".Wundt founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research at the University of Leipzig.
  • E.B. Titchner

    E.B. Titchner
    E.B. Titchener was a British psychologist. Titchener is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind; structuralism. Titchener believed that if the basic components of the mind could be defined and categorized that the structure of mental processes and higher thinking could be determined.
  • Margaret Floy Washburn

    Margaret Floy Washburn
    Margaret Floy Washburn was a leading American psychologist in the early 20th century, was best known for her experimental work in animal behavior and motor theory development. She was the first woman to be granted a PhD in psychology.
  • Mary Whiton Calkins

    Mary Whiton Calkins
    Mary was an American Philosopher and psychologiest. She was the first women to be the president of the American Psychological Association. She created a method of memorization called the right associates method.
  • Rosalie Rayner

    Rosalie Rayner
    Rosalie Rayner was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. She helped conducted research on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising. In addition, she conducted the controversial "Little Albert" experiment. Married to John B Watson.
  • Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon
    Francis Bacon was a british artist who wrote triptych three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion. He also painted his masterpiece Study for a self portrait-Triptych 1985-86