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Wilhem Wundt found the first experimental psych lab in Leipzig.
This marks the moment psychology becomes its own field of study. -
Period: to
The Development of Psychology
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Sigmund Freud begins treating patients in Vienna, Austria
Sigmund Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis. -
Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams
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The British Psychological Society is formed
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Ivan Pavloc trains a dog to salivate on hearing the sound of a bell.
Pavlov's dogs becomes the first example of classical conditioning. -
Carl Jung publishes The Psychology of Dementia Preaecox.
Jung begins to break away from Freud's ideas to develop his own theories of analytical psychology. -
Max Wertheimer publishes his research on the phi phenomenon.
Contributed to the development of the Gestalt school of psychology. -
John Watson becomes a founder of the school of behaviourism.
In which believe thoughts feelings and actions are developed through conditioning -
Jean Piaget publishes The Moral Judgement of the Child
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Electroconvulsive therapy is used for the first time on a person.
Becoming a popular method of treatment in the 1940s and 1950s (still remains in use today) -
Carl Rogers publishes Counseling and Psychotherapy
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Abraham Maslow publishes his theory of the hierarchy of needs.
Maslow is one of the founders of humanistic psychology -
Albert Ellis publishes Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy.
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Aaron Beck publishes a model of depression that suggests thoughts play a significant role.
He is seen as the founder of cognitice behavioural therapy. -
Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct is published
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Simon Baron-Cohen's 'The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain' proposes that autism may be an "extreme form of maleness"
