Psychology Timeline
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Updated: 2 Oct 2018
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Created byJulia Valdez
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Abraham Maslow published
"Motivation and Personality
which described his theory
of a hierarchy of needs.Harry Harlow published
"The Nature of Love" which
described the importance of
attachment and love using monkeys.Albert Bandura conducted
the Bobo doll experiment to
observe child behavior.Stanley Milgram published
"Obedience to Authority"Steven Pinker published
an article that introduced
his theories as to how children
acquire language.Genetic researchers finished
mapping human genes with the
goal of isolating the individual
chromosome that is responsible
for mental dysfunction.Simon LeVay published
"Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why"
which argues that sexual orientation
comes from prenatal differentiation
in the brain and not something
that is a choice.APA removes "gender identity disorder"
from the list of mental illnesses.John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser,
and Edvard Moser shared the
Nobel Prize for their discovery of
cells that constitute a positioning
system in the brain key to memory.Steven Pinker published
"The Blank Slate" arguing against
the theory that the mind is a
blank slate at birth.
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