History of Psychology

Socrates

Plato

Descartes - "I think, therefore I am" (Mind-Body Dualism)

Mesmer - Used hypnosis for therapeutic purposes, - "Mesmerized"

Declaration of Independence

Darwin - Writes "The Origin of Species" (Natural Selection) (Evolutionary Psychology)

Father of Psychology - Wilhelm Wundt - made 1st textbook

Father of American Psychology - William James - Functionalism (why do we behave the way we do?)

Edward Titchener - Brought ideas to the US - Structuralism (Used introspection, indentified basic structures of life.)

Rise of psychoanalysis - Freud (non-scientific) (controversial), led to psycho-dynamic perspective

Freud's Death

Rise of Behaviourism - Skinner + Pavlov (+his dogs), conditioning - stimulus response - rewards - punishment - most successful when treating observable problems

DSM - Diagnosis and Statistical Manual for mental disorders

Rise of humanistic psychology (self-actualization) - Rogers + Maslow, free will

Cognitive Psychology - "study of mental processes such as [attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking]."

Positive Psychology - study of optimal human functionality

LIST OF UNKNOWN DATES: -neuroscience -biological approach -piopsychosocial research

Aristotle

Civil War

WWI

WWII