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History of Psychology
*Pre 1600* |
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Forerunners -
Trephining: chip a hole in the skull
Hippocrates: four temperaments of personality |
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History of Psychology
*1600 - 1800* |
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Descartes: animal spirits were carried through the "tubes" of nerves
John Locke: tabala rosa - blank slate
Franz Joseph Gall: phrenology - read the bumps on person's head to determine intelligence and character
Wilhelm Wundt: first psych lab - STRUCTUALISM
William James: "Principles of Psychology" - FUNCTIONALISM |
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History of Psychology
*1900 - 1930* |
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1900: Sigmund Freud - psychodynamic perspective
1904: Ivan Pavlov - fundamental principles of learning
1905: Mary Calkins - memory
1920: Gestalt psychology
1924: John B. Watson - "Behaviorism"
1928: Leta Stretter - adolescence |
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History of Psychology
*1950 - 1970* |
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1951: Carl Rogers - "Client Centered Therapy"
HUMANISTIC
1953: B.F.Skinner - "Science and Human Behavior" BEHAVIORAL
1954: Abraham Maslow - "Motivation and Personality
SELF-ACTUALIZATION
1957: Leon Festinger - "A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance"
Known for impact on Social Psychology.
1969: Arguments regarding GENETIC BASIS OF IQ fuel lingering controversies |
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History of Psychology
*1980 - 2010* |
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Definition
1980: Jean Piaget, influential developmental psych, dies
1981: David Hubel/Torsten Wiesel - Nobel Prize for work on vision cells in the brain
1985: Increasing emphasis on cognitive perspective
1990: Greater emphasis on multiculturalism and diversity
2000: Elizabethh Loftus - pioneering work on false memory and eyewitness testimony
2010: New subfields such as clinical neuropsychology ad evolutionary psychology |
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