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Charles Darwin
British naturalist Darwin was born -
Wilhelm Wundt
Birth of Wundt -
William James
founder of functionalism -
Phineas Gage
A certain part of his brain was pierced with an iron pole from a work related incident and he changed into a whole different person. -
On the Origin of Species
Darwin published his ideas in this book -
John B. Watson
Birth of Watson who was an important behaviorist. -
G. Stanley Hall
First American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology -
Birth of Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt found the first experimental psychology lab in Leipzig, Germany -
Wundt
Forms the professional journal "Philosophische Studien" -
First experimental psychology lab
G. Stanley Hall opens the first experimental psychology lab in the United States at John Hopkins University -
First American Psychology laboratory
G. Stanley Hall established this at John Hopkins University. -
Herman Ebbinghaus
Published his famous Über das Gedächtnis or on Memory -
Beginning of treatments
Sigmund Freud begins treatments of patients in Vienna, Austria -
Therapy
Freud started to provide this service to patients in Vienna, Austria -
First Doctorate in Psychology
Given to Joseph Jastrow -
First professor of psychology
Given to James Mckeen Cattell -
Mental Tests and Measurements
James McKeen Cattell published this -
Principles of Psychology
William James published this book -
Psychodiagnosis
Albert Binet forms the first psychology lab for this -
Law of Effect
Edward Thorndike develops the Law of Effect -
Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud published this book about the unconscious mind and the kinds of thoughts we have during dreams. -
British Psychology Society
The BPS was born -
Ivan Pavlov experiments
Pavlov trains a dog to salivate on hearing the sound of a bell. -
B.F. Skinner
The birth of B.F. Skinner -
The First Intelligence Test
Alfred Binet publishes the first intelligence test, the Binet-Simon scale. -
Mary Whiton Calkins
First woman president of the American Psychological Association -
Classical Conditioning
Ivan Pavlov published his findings on classical conditioning. -
Animal Intelligence
Edward Thorndike publishes Animal Intelligence. -
Carl Jung
Comes up with analytical psychology -
Unconscious thought
Freud defined the term unconscious thought -
psychoanalysis
Introduced by Freud -
Little Albert
Publication of classical conditioning of little Albert by Watson and Rosalie Wayner. -
the moral judgement of children
Jean Piaget publishes this book -
TAT
Henry Murray publishes the Thematic Appreception Test -
Operant Conditioning
B.F. Skinner develops the theory of operant conditioning. -
Electroshock Therapy
This therapy was first used to treat human patients. -
Client-centered Therapy
Carl Rogers came up with this concept -
Hierarchy of Needs
Abraham Maslow publishes Motivation and Personality that explains the hierarchy of needs. -
Abraham Maslow
Helps found humanistic psychology. -
The Nature of Love
Harry Harlow publishes this book about the importance of attachment and love. -
Bobo Doll experiment
Albert Bandura conducts this experiment -
Observational Learning
Albert Bandura describes this concept to explain personality development. -
Bystander Effect
The murder of Kitty Genovese prompted the discovery of this effect. -
Erik Erikson
Did a study on Mahatma Gandhi's life to see how positive spiritual identity developed. -
Maslow
Discovered that people have to ability to control their lives and environment -
Obedience to Authority
Stanley Milgram publishes this, which presented the findings of his famous experiment -
Kohlberg
Introduced the theory that conscious reasoning influenced moral judgement -
Satisfaction with Life Scale
Ed Diener and others made this self-report questionnaire to measure how satisfied a person is with his or her life. -
The Language Instinct
Steven Pinker publishes this book to further explain the theory of how children acquire language -
The Dark side of the American Dream
Studies that were about psychological and physical functioning questionnaires. -
Ed and Carol Diener
Published conclusions of their findings from the research of the Satisfaction with Life Scale. -
Studying of variables for crime occurrences
Anderson and others discovered the third variable for increasing of crime occurrences and that is heat -
Happiness as a predictor of life outcomes
Lee Anne Harker and Dacher Keltner conducted an experiment on this. -
Relationship between happiness and longevity
A study was done for this and required nuns to write a spiritual autobiography (Deborah Danner and her colleagues. Those who expressed positive emotion were more likely to live longer lives. -
Hobson
Discovered that people who were awakened during REM sleep have more vivid dreams and are more awake and well rested. -
Biswas-Diener, Vitterso, and Diener
Conducted studies on levels of happiness in groups of people who have not generally been included in psychological studies -
Experiments with the Satisfaction with Life Scale
Experiments were conducted on African nomadic groups and they averaged above 5.0 -
7-point happiness scale
Studies conducted by Biswas-Deiner, Vitterso, and Diener about the Amish's happiness and they scored a 4.4 -
Killgore and Others
An experiment was conducted where participants had to stay awake for 53 hours straight and they showed difficulty in many things, such as making moral decisions. -
self-determination theory
This theory was introduced by Ryan, Huta, and Deci -
The importance of sleep
Diekelmann, Wilhelm, and Born had findings from a research review that stressed the importance of sleep -
Leary and Guadagno
Introduced the theory that the most important human need is the need to belong to a social group. -
Daydreaming
Domhoff went more in depth with the idea of daydreaming -
Research done by the National Sleep Foundation
In a national survey of more than 1500 people 43 percent of them reported that they rarely get a good night's sleep on weeknights -
Peterson and Others
Discovered problems with surveys and interviews -
Scientific Method
Ray introduced this method for psychology which made it a science. -
Salkind
Salkind introduces the theory that descriptive research can reveal important information about people's behaviors and attitudes. -
David Buss
Argued that evolution influences many things, such as decision making and our mating patterns -
Rasch and Born
discovered the important role in sleep for consolidation of memory -
Outside of Awareness
Evans, Gao, and Zhang discovered that mental processes can occur outside of awareness -
Circadian rhythms
Robinson and Reddy discovered these cycles -
suprachiasmatic nucleus
researchers found out this structure and it's functions. -
Sleep Spindles
Cox and others discovered these increase in wave frequency -
Howell
Discovered the importance of statistics for psychology -
Jackson
Introduced a certain type of scientific observation. -
Heiman and Howell
Came up with the realization that "Correlation does not equal causation" -
Steven Pinker
Introduces the theory of how children acquire language