Intro to Psychology timeline by Alexander Szerlip

1872. Charles Darwin's The Expression of Emotion of Man and Animals

alexanderszerlip — 2025-01-30 17:44:27 UTC

This book is Charles Darwin's third work of evolutionary history. This was the first work of evolutionary theory related to psychology written by Darwin. The book talks about why humans and animals evolved to have certain behaviors.

1879: Science of Psychology

alexanderanderson12 — 2025-01-30 17:45:14 UTC

Wilhelm Wundt established the first laboratory that was solely dedicated to psychology. This was the University of Leipzig.

400 BC. Hippocrates classified mental illnesses.

alexanderszerlip — 2025-01-30 17:51:07 UTC

Hippocrates was the first person to acknowledge mental illnesses like paranoia, epilepsy, mania and melancholia. This was the first time they had ever been classified, as previous people who had mental illnesses who thought to be insane.

1969: Neuroasthenia

alexanderanderson12 — 2025-01-30 17:51:48 UTC

People in the medical field became quite interested in anxiety around this time. The term neuroasthenia refers to a broad range of anxiety symptoms.

1886 First Doctorate in Psychology.

alexanderszerlip — 2025-01-30 17:53:32 UTC

The first Doctorate in psychology was given to a student named Joseph Jastrow. He later became a professor of psychology at the university of Wisconsin.

2025: New Brain Circuit Target

alexanderanderson12 — 2025-01-30 17:55:24 UTC

Cornell medicine has discovered a potential new target for drugs that deal with anxiety. This target has the potential to help reduce anxiety with no side effects, this has only been shown in very early clinical trials.

1892 APA founded

alexanderszerlip — 2025-01-30 17:58:16 UTC

The American Psychological Association was founded G. Stanley Hall. The APA is devoted to increasing psychological knowledge.

1913: Analytical Psychology

alexanderanderson12 — 2025-01-30 18:01:00 UTC

Carl Jung created analytical psychology differing somewhat from Freud. He created the idea of a self regulating psyche or subconscious. That it was there to help the individual and could be trusted.

1905. IQ tests are developed.

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Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon develop a scale of general intelligence based on a person's mental age. The accuracy of these tests is still questioned today.

1920s-1950s: Behaviorism

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It is the psychological study of observable behavior. Discovered and studied by John B. Watson and B.F Skinner. How human behavior is affected by the environment they are in.

1912: Experimental Studies on the Perception of Movement

alexanderanderson12 — 2025-01-30 18:08:35 UTC

Max Wertheimer published this book. This is about gestalt psychology which is the idea that the brain has patterns of information instead of storing it all separately. The sum is greater than the individual parts.