Key Figures and Events Flashcards
5,000 BCE
Trephination (drilling a small hole in a person’s skull) is used to release the spirits and demons from the mind
Hippocrates - 460-377 BCE
The first man to write about a man suffering from acrophobia - fear of heights
John Locke - 1690
Proposes that the mind is a blank slate to be written on by experience.
Gustav Fechner - 1860
Publishes Elemente der Psychophysik, establishing the discipline of Psychophysics.
Wilhelm Wundt - 1879
Opens the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany.
William James - 1890
Publishes principles of psychology, a text in 2 volumes.
G. Stanley Hall - 1892
A founding father of the American Psychological Association (APA), becomes its first President.
Sigmund Freud - 1900
Introduces his psychoanalytic theory of behavior with the publication of the interpretation of dreams.
Mary Whiton Calkins - 1905
Becomes the first female president of APA.
Max Wertheimer - 1912
Develops the principle of Gestalt Psychology.
John B Watson - 1913
Establishes behaviorism to study observable behavior.
Francis C Sumner - 1920
Becomes first African American to earn a Ph.D. in Psychology.
Frederick Bartlet - 1932
Lays the foundation for cognitive science with his book Remembering.
B. F. Skinner - 1938
Publishes the Behavior Organisms, outlining his version of behaviorism.
Karen Horney - 1950
Published Neurosis and Human Growth outlining her psychoanalytic social theory as an alternative to Freud’s psychosexual theory.
Carl Rogers - 1951
Publishes client-centered therapy, advocating a new humanistic approach emphasizing personal growth.
Abraham Maslow - 1953
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs - a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.
Jean Piaget - 1965
Publishes the child’s conception of number.
Eleanor Maccoby/ Carl Jacklin - 1974
Publish a seminal book on gender, the psychology of sex differences.
John Tooby/ Leda Cosmides - 1992
Publish a landmark chapter “ The Evolutionary Foundations of Culture” that jumps -starts Evolutionary Psychology.
Martin Seligman - 1998
Starts the positive psychology movement with Mihaly Csikszentmihaly, to study and promote psychological well-being.
