| 427
- 322 B.C. |
Lives
of Greek philosphers: Plato, Socrates, Aristotle |
| 426 |
Life
of St. Augustine, a great thinker who wrote Confessions
(406) and City
of God (426) presenting his views of the human situation |
| 1264 |
St.
Thomas Aquinas publishes his famous Summa
Theological, a prodigious work that affirmed the value of
knowledge gained through sense and thought. |
| 1605 |
Sir
Francis Bacon publishes The Proficience and Advancement of
Learning. |
| 1649 |
Rene
Discartes writes Passions of the Soul, which postulates
the total separation of body and soul. |
| 1651 |
Thomas
Hobbes publishes the Leviathan. |
| 1690 |
English
philosopher John
Locke publishes An
Essay Concerning Human Understanding. |
| 1709 |
Foundational
philosophy:
George
Berkeley publishes An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision. |
| 1859 |
Charles
Darwin publishes the Origin
of Species. |
| 1869 |
Francis
Galton publishes Hereditary Genius. |
| 1875 |
William
James teaches the course, "The relationships among the Physiology
and the Psychology." |
| 1876 |
Francis
Galton first uses the method of twin comparisons. |
| 1885 |
Herman
Ebbinghaus publishes Memory:
A contribution to Experimental Psychology. |
| 1879 |
Wilhelm
Wundt opens the first formal psychological laboratory at the University
of Leipzig in Germany. |
| 1883 |
G.
Stanley Hall founds America's first psychological laboratory
at Johns Hopkins University. |
| 1888 |
James
McKeen Cattell, former student of Wundt and professor at the
University of Pennsylvania, became the first in the United States
with the title "Professor of Psychology." |
| 1890 |
William
James publishes Principles
of Psychology.
J.M. Cattell publishes Mental
tests and measurements. |
| 1892 |
Edward
Titchener, another student of Wundt, emigrates to the United States,
where he would introduce the structuralism movement.
G. Stanley Hall helps to found the American Psychological Association.
E.L. Thorndike publishes Animal Intelligence. |
| 1894 |
J.M.
Cattell and Baldwin found Psychological Review, Psychological
Index, and Psychological Monographs. |
| 1898 |
Edward
Thornkike publishes his classical monograph Animal Intelligence. |
| 1900 |
Sigmund
Freud presents his concepts of psychoanalysis in a publication
entitled "The Interpretation of Dreams." |
| 1906 |
Mary
Whiton Calkins becomes the first president of the American Psychological Assocation. |
| 1906 |
Ivan
Pavlov publishes his findings regarding classical conditioning
(aka Pavlovian conditioning). |
| 1907 |
Alfred
Adler publishes his main work: A Study of Organic Inferiority
and Its Psychical Compensation. |
| 1908 |
Alfred
Binet and Theodor Simon develop tests for measurement children's
intelligence. |
| 1909 |
G.
Stanley Hall invites Freud to give a series of lectures in America,
which spread Freud's theory and his fame. |
| 1912 |
Max
Wertheimer launches the Gestalt movement with his work on the
phi phenomenon. |
| 1913 |
John
B. Watson publishes Psychology
as a Behaviorist Views It, launching the influential behaviorism
movement
George Herbert Mead publishes The
Social Self. |
| 1916 |
Lewis
M. Terman publishes The
Uses of Intelligence Tests. |
| 1923 |
Sigmund
Freud publishes The Ego and the Id. |
| 1926 |
Jean
Piaget publishes The language and thought of a child. |
| 1927 |
Charles
E. Spearman publishes Abilities of Man on general and specific
factors of intelligence. |
| 1935 |
Kurt
Lewin publishes A Dynamic Theory of Personality.
Kurt Koffka publishes Principles of Gestalt Psychology.
|
| 1936 |
Anna
Freud publishes The ego and the mechanisms of defence,
which include her account of defense mechanisms. |
| 1937 |
Gordon
W. Allport publishes Personality: A psychological interpretation,
one of the books responsible for the acceptance of personality
as a field of academic study. |
| 1938 |
B.F.
Skinner publishes Behavior of Organisms, introducing operant
conditioning.
Henry A. Murry and Christiana Morgan devise the Thematic Apperception
Test. |
| 1939 |
Neal
Miller and John Dollard published their famous study Frustration
and Aggression. |
| 1946 |
Raymond
B. Cattell published his factor-analytical Description and
measurement of personality. |
| 1950 |
Konrad
Lorenz wrote The Comparative Method in Studying Innate Behaviour
Patterns, in which he used the evolutionary perspective to
analyze aspects of behavior and made the controversial assertion
that humans are inherently aggressive. |
| 1951 |
Solomon
Asch presents his classical study on conformity in making line
length judgments
Carl Rogers publishes Client-Centered Therapy, presenting
his influential techniques in client-centered therapy. |
| 1953 |
Eugene
Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman discover REM sleep. |
| 1954 |
Abraham
Maslow publishes Motivation and Personality, a significant
work for the humanism movement. |
| 1959 |
Leon
Festinger and Carlsmith publish their study, Cognitive
consequences of forced compliance. |
| 1971 |
George
Miller publishes The
Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two with important ideas on
short-term memory. |
| 1971 |
B.F.
Skinner publishes Beyond Freedom and Dignity. |
| 1974 |
Stanley
Milgram publishes Obedience to Authority, discussing his
famous electric shock experiment |
| 1990 |
Noam
Chomsky publishes On Nature, Use and Acquisition of Language. |
