https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv en-us 2021-01-31 17:50:25 UTC 2026-03-03 05:07:56 UTC hello@padlet.com randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1145953570 Wilhelm Wundt opens first experimental laboratory in psychology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Jump starting psychology as its own field.]]> 2021-01-31 17:54:34 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1145953570 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1145969946 The first doctorate in psychology is given to Joseph Jastrow. He then becomes professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin.]]> 2021-01-31 18:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1145969946 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146006728 G. Stanley Hall founds the American Psychological Association and serves as its first president.]]> 2021-01-31 18:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146006728 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146011562 Lightner Witmer opens the world’s first psychological clinic to patients. Which shifted his focus from experimental work to practical application of his findings.]]> 2021-01-31 18:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146011562 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146023829 Sigmund Freud introduces his theory of psychoanalysis in The Interpretation of Dreams. The first 24 books which explored topics like the unconscious, techniques of free association, and sexuality as a driving force in human psychology.]]> 2021-01-31 18:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146023829 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146031999 Mary Calkins is elected president of the APA. She was a professor and researcher at Wellesley College, studied at Harvard University, but was denied her a Ph.D. by Harvard because of her gender.]]> 2021-01-31 18:34:27 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146031999 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146110913 Using standardized tests, Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon developed a scale of general intelligence based off of mental age. Later researchers refined this work into the concept of intelligence quotient; IQ, mental age over physical age. ]]> 2021-01-31 19:14:38 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146110913 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146123873 Clifford Beers publishes A Mind That Found Itself, which went into detail of his experiences as a patient in the 19th-century mental asylums. The book called for more humane treatment of patients and better education about mental illness for the general population, the book inspires the mental hygiene movement in the United States.]]> 2021-01-31 19:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146123873 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146134067 John B. Watson publishes Psychology as Behavior, which brought behaviorism into the world of psychology.]]> 2021-01-31 19:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146134067 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146142496 Standardized intelligence and aptitude tests are admitted to two million U. S. soldiers during WWI. Soon after the war, such tests are used in all U.S. armed forces branches and in many areas of civilian life, including academic and work settings.]]> 2021-01-31 19:31:27 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146142496 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146149810 Francis Cecil Sumner earns a Ph.D. in psychology under G. Stanley Hall at Clark University. Sumner later serves as chair of the Howard University psychology department.]]> 2021-01-31 19:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146149810 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146154529 Psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach creates a personality test based on patients’ interpretations of inkblots which is known as the Rorschach test.]]> 2021-01-31 19:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146154529 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146159536 Charles Frederick Menninger and his sons Karl Augustus and William Clair found The Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. They took a compassionate approach to the treatment of mental illness, which emphasized both psychological and psychiatric disciplines.]]> 2021-01-31 19:40:54 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146159536 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146654424 Walter Freeman performs the first frontal lobotomy in the United States at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The procedure, intended to relieve severe and debilitating psychosis. ]]> 2021-02-01 01:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146654424 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146666426 Italian psychiatrist and neuropathologist Ugo Cerletti and his associates treat human patients with electrical shocks to alleviate schizophrenia and psychosis. ]]> 2021-02-01 01:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146666426 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146668830 U.S. President Harry Truman signs the National Mental Health Act, which provided generous funding for psychiatric education and research for the first time in U.S. history. This then lead to the creation of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).]]> 2021-02-01 01:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146668830 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146678405 Studies were published that reported the drug imipramine may be able to lessen depression. Eight years later, the FDA approves the use of it in the United States under the name Tofranil.]]> 2021-02-01 01:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146678405 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146704213 The development of psychoactive drugs in the 1950s and their approval by the FDA initiates a new form of treatment for mental illness. Among the first such drugs is Doriden which is an anti-anxiety medication. ]]> 2021-02-01 02:13:44 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146704213 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146713610 President John F. Kennedy calls for and later signs the Community Mental Health Centers Act, which mandates the construction of community facilities instead of large, regional mental hospitals. ]]> 2021-02-01 02:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146713610 randymendiola26 https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146774624 The FDA approves the new anti-depressant medication fluoxetine, (Prozac). The drug, and other similar medications, acts on neurotransmitters, specifically, serotonin.]]> 2021-02-01 03:01:54 UTC https://padlet.com/randymendiola26/glzfqckwsn0t3erv/wish/1146774624