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Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychological laboratory at the University of Leipzig in Germany. -
G. Stanley Hall founded the American Psychological Association (APA).
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John Dewey paper, The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology, founded Social Behaviorism.
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The first psychological clinic was opened at the University of Pennsylvania, by Lightner Witmer. -
Sigmund Freud published, Die Traumdeutung, this lead to the beginning of psychoanalysis.
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Sigmund Freud opened the International Psychological Association (IPA). Carl Jung was the president and Otto Rank as first secretary.
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John B. Watson published Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It, which created behaviorism.
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Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, published, The Child’s Conception of the World, which caused the study of cognition in a developing child.
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Helen Flanders Dunbar founded the American Psychosomatic Society (American Society Research in Psychosomatic Problems). -
President Harry Truman signed the National Mental Health Act which gave funding for psychiatric education and research. -
The National Mental Health Act lead to the creation of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
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Noam Chomsky publishes Syntactic Structures, marking a major advancement in the study of linguistics, and it created the field of psycholinguistics, the psychology of language.
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President John F. Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Centers Act which mandated the construction of community facilities instead of regional mental hospitals.
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Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene which popularized evolutionary psychology. It applies principles from evolutionary biology and offers new ways of looking at social phenomena.
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Jerome Bruner in Acts of Meaning, Four Lectures on Mind and Culture, helps formulate cultural psychology, an approach drawing on philosophy, linguistics, and anthropology. Cultural psychology focuses on the influences and relationship among mind, cultural community and behavior. -
Sixteen public research institutes completed a working draft that mapped the human genetic code. It provided a research basis for new understanding of human development and disease.
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