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The History of research in Psychology

  • Trephination practices
    6500 BCE

    Trephination practices

    The labeled "Medicine Man" would drill holes in so called demon sick people skulls to release demons. Many died right away from these inhuman practices.
  • Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments

    Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments

    Trials of documented black men who had the syphilis disease and many weren't treated properly. They refused many black men to receive the penicillin shot.
  • Nazi concentration Camp Experiments

    Nazi concentration Camp Experiments

    Homosexual jewish men would go through Sleep deprivation, unneeded surgeries with enhanced morphine, and pure physical and psychological torture.
  • Zimbardo Prison Experiment

    Zimbardo Prison Experiment

    The study revealed how reasonable people could become unreasonable and even sadistic when backed by ideological authority.
  • The Belmont Report

    The Belmont Report

    Gives principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research.