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British naturalist Darwin was born
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Birth of Wundt
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founder of functionalism
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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.
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Darwin published his ideas in this book
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Birth of Watson who was an important behaviorist.
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First American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology
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Wilhelm Wundt found the first experimental psychology lab in Leipzig, Germany
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Forms the professional journal "Philosophische Studien"
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G. Stanley Hall opens the first experimental psychology lab in the United States at John Hopkins University
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G. Stanley Hall established this at John Hopkins University.
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Published his famous Über das Gedächtnis or on Memory
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Sigmund Freud begins treatments of patients in Vienna, Austria
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Freud started to provide this service to patients in Vienna, Austria
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Given to Joseph Jastrow
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Given to James Mckeen Cattell
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James McKeen Cattell published this
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William James published this book
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Albert Binet forms the first psychology lab for this
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Edward Thorndike develops the Law of Effect
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Sigmund Freud published this book about the unconscious mind and the kinds of thoughts we have during dreams.
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The BPS was born
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Pavlov trains a dog to salivate on hearing the sound of a bell.
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The birth of B.F. Skinner
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Alfred Binet publishes the first intelligence test, the Binet-Simon scale.
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First woman president of the American Psychological Association
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Ivan Pavlov published his findings on classical conditioning.
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Edward Thorndike publishes Animal Intelligence.
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Comes up with analytical psychology
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Freud defined the term unconscious thought
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Introduced by Freud
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Publication of classical conditioning of little Albert by Watson and Rosalie Wayner.
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Jean Piaget publishes this book
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Henry Murray publishes the Thematic Appreception Test
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B.F. Skinner develops the theory of operant conditioning.
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This therapy was first used to treat human patients.
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Carl Rogers came up with this concept
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Abraham Maslow publishes Motivation and Personality that explains the hierarchy of needs.
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Helps found humanistic psychology.
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Harry Harlow publishes this book about the importance of attachment and love.
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Albert Bandura conducts this experiment
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Albert Bandura describes this concept to explain personality development.
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The murder of Kitty Genovese prompted the discovery of this effect.
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Did a study on Mahatma Gandhi's life to see how positive spiritual identity developed.
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Discovered that people have to ability to control their lives and environment
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Stanley Milgram publishes this, which presented the findings of his famous experiment
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Introduced the theory that conscious reasoning influenced moral judgement
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Ed Diener and others made this self-report questionnaire to measure how satisfied a person is with his or her life.
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Steven Pinker publishes this book to further explain the theory of how children acquire language
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Studies that were about psychological and physical functioning questionnaires.
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Published conclusions of their findings from the research of the Satisfaction with Life Scale.
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Anderson and others discovered the third variable for increasing of crime occurrences and that is heat
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Lee Anne Harker and Dacher Keltner conducted an experiment on this.
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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.
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Discovered that people who were awakened during REM sleep have more vivid dreams and are more awake and well rested.
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Conducted studies on levels of happiness in groups of people who have not generally been included in psychological studies
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Experiments were conducted on African nomadic groups and they averaged above 5.0
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Studies conducted by Biswas-Deiner, Vitterso, and Diener about the Amish's happiness and they scored a 4.4
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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.
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This theory was introduced by Ryan, Huta, and Deci
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Diekelmann, Wilhelm, and Born had findings from a research review that stressed the importance of sleep
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Introduced the theory that the most important human need is the need to belong to a social group.
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Domhoff went more in depth with the idea of daydreaming
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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
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Discovered problems with surveys and interviews
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Ray introduced this method for psychology which made it a science.
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Salkind introduces the theory that descriptive research can reveal important information about people's behaviors and attitudes.
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Argued that evolution influences many things, such as decision making and our mating patterns
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discovered the important role in sleep for consolidation of memory
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Evans, Gao, and Zhang discovered that mental processes can occur outside of awareness
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Robinson and Reddy discovered these cycles
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researchers found out this structure and it's functions.
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Cox and others discovered these increase in wave frequency
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Discovered the importance of statistics for psychology
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Introduced a certain type of scientific observation.
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Came up with the realization that "Correlation does not equal causation"
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Introduces the theory of how children acquire language