Psych History Flashcards
Difference between the AAAP and the APA
American Association for Applied Psychology
- education
- industry
- consulting
- clinical work
American Psychological Association
- represent the interest of academic psychologists
- recognizes 58 divisions of psychology
Psychology WWII
AAAP & APA
- AAAP & APA merged together to meet the mental health needs of the nation
- APA, Veterans Administration & Public Health Service all worked together to make proper training to produce clinical psychologists
- 1949, Boulder Conference on Graduate Education in Clinical Psychology
1949 Boulder Conference on Graduate Education in Clinical Psychology
Define Scientist practitioner model of training
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes the development of both research and clinical skills.
1973 Vail Conference on Professional Training in Psychology
Psy.D. degree (Doctor of Psychology)
Define Scholar-practitioner model
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes clinical practice.
- brought as an alternative to Boulder
What is the name of the association of psychology that focuses on society’s social issues? SPSSI 1936
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Psych timeline
1600 - psych of measurement
1850 - brain
1600 - Rise of empiricism
1850 - Helmholz measures neural impulse / Psychophysics studied by Weber & Fechner
Psych timeline
1859 - Darwin
1879 - lab
1883 - 1st lab America
1887 - American journal
1890 - basics
1892 - APA
1894 - 1st woman psych Ph.D.
1859 - Publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species
1879 - Wundt opens lab for experimental psychology
1883 - First psychology lab opens in the United States1887 - First American psychology journal is published: American Journal of Psychology
1890 - James publishes Principles of Psychology
1892 - APA established
1894 - Margaret Floy Washburn is first U.S. woman to earn Ph.D. in psychology
Psych timeline
1904 - Titchener
1905 - 1st woman pres APA
1909 - Freud America
1913 - Watson
1920 - 1st black psych Ph.D.
1921 - 2nd woman pres APA
1930s - AAAP
1936 - psych meets sociology association
1940s - behaviourism
1946 - NMHA
1949 - Boulder
1904 - Founding of Titchener’s experimentalists
1905 - Mary Whiton Calkins is first woman president of APA 1909 - Freud’s only visit to the United States
1913 - John Watson calls for a psychology of behavior
1920 - Francis Cecil Sumner is first African American to earn Ph.D. in psychology
1921 - Margaret Floy Washburn is second woman president of APA
1930s - Creation and growth of the American Association for Applied Psychology (AAAP) / Gestalt psychology comes to America
1936 - Founding of The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
1940s - Behaviorism dominates American psychology
1946 - National Mental Health Act
1949 - Boulder Conference on Graduate Education in Clinical Psychology
Psych timeline
1950s - cognitive
1954 - black segregation law
1957 - hooker
1968 - ABP
1973 - Vail
1988 - APS
1950s - Cognitive psychology gains popularity
1954 - Brown v. Board of Education
1957 - Evelyn Hooker publishes The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual
1968 - Founding of the Association of Black Psychologists
1973 - Psy.D. proposed at the Vail Conference on Professional Training in Psychology
1988 - Founding of the American Psychological Society (now known as the Association for Psychological Science)
What decade was quantitative genetics developed?
1920s
What decade was DNA discovered? By who?
Watson and Crick
1950s
What century was the human genome completely sequenced?
21st century
