Experimental psychology

History of Psychology by Camila Fajardo Daniela Gomez and Ana Maria Mantilla

  • Functionalism

    Functionalism
    Functionalism was a psychological school that concerned on how the conscious is related to behaviour. Based on the function of the mind in the late19th century. Now a days is represented by Egon Brunswik.
  • mental tests

    mental tests
    US army selected their soldiers by performing standarized mental tests in them.
  • Roarcharch´s test

    Roarcharch´s test
    it consists on a test in which a subjects is shown several slides with an inkbot in them and are asked to describe what that image causes in their mind, what comes to mind.
  • Wilhelm Wundt

    Wilhelm Wundt
    Wilhem Wundt was the father of psychology. He was a physiologist and a psychologist and the founder of enperimental psychology. That´s why he opened the institute for experimental psychology in Germany, which was the beginning of modern psychology.
  • Hall´s laboratory

    Hall´s laboratory
    Stanley Hall was a psychologist who improved psychology in the US. The founder of child and educational psychology. He also established a laboratory at John Hopkins university.
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud
    Sigmund Freud was a neurologist that developed tecniques for psychoanalisis, a method through which an analyst unpacks unconscious conflicts based on the free associations, dreams and fantasies of the patient. Thats why he was considered the father of psychoanalysis
  • gestalt

    gestalt
    some of the gesalt´s principles included:
    - principle of totality: in which all aspects of the studied subjects should be taken into account in the moments of reaching a conclusion regarding their psycologicall examination.
    - principle of physophysical isomorphism: aknoledging a correlation between the concious experience and mental activities.
  • APA foundation

    APA foundation
    "The American Psychological Foundation (APF) provides financial support for innovative research and programs for students and early career psychologists working to make a difference in people’s lives." (APA, 2015) It was founded by Satanley Hall in 1892.
  • IQ testing

    IQ testing
    IQ test "is a test designed to measure a person's mental aptitude or inherent ability. The measure is taken, a numerical score is assigned, and then compared to others who've taken the same test." Was developed by Alfred Binet
  • The Behavioral Manifesto

    John B Watson published the Behavioral Manifesto
  • Hans Berger´s invention

    Hans Berger´s invention
    He published a paper demonstrating the first electroencephalogram wich allowed scientists to observe the electrical activity in the surface of the brain.
  • The Behavior of Organisms

    The Behavior of Organisms
    B.F skinner published his first book regarding the parameters that need to be taken into account when performing an experimental analysis of behavior.
  • Stucturalism

    Stucturalism
    Analyze the adult mind in terms of the simplest definable components and then to find the way in which these components fit together in complex forms.
  • Article "The magical number seven plus minus two"

    Article "The magical number seven plus minus two"
    Author: George A. Miller
    Tlks about the coincidence between the limits of one - dimensional and the limits of the short - term memory, this both are discussed.
  • PET scans

    PET scans
    Positron Emission Tomography
    It was first scanned in UK
  • FDA´s Approval

    FDA´s Approval
    The FDA approved the drug of Lithium, this drug is use to treart depression and mood changes.
  • "Selfish Gene"

    "Selfish Gene"
    Author: Richard Dawkins
    Gene centred - view of evolution
  • Standardised tests

    Standardised tests
    It was a discrimination in 1979 because the education of each person was defined by the tests.
  • Ethical Principles of Psychologists

    The American Psychologists Association published the principles.
  • Jerome Bruner

    Jerome Bruner
    "Acts of meaning"
    - Computer model for studying the mind.
    - More clarity of the mind and its cognitions.
  • FDA's approval for depression drugs

    FDA's approval for depression drugs
    One drug aprroved is Brintellix, it cause nausea, constipation, and vomiting