psychology timeline
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Updated: 27 Oct 2018
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Created byPhil Sharp
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1894 - Margaret Floy Washburn
becomes the first woman
to earn a Ph.D in psychology1988 - American Psychological Society
was founded with the central
mission of advancing psychological
science1600s - First Signs of Psychology were
John Lock and Thomas Reid
promote empiricism believing
that knowledge comes from belief.1860 - Hermann Von Helmholtz
measures the speed of the
neural impulse indicating
our senses deceive us.1875 - Wilhelm Wundt promote
the idea that psychology
could be an experimental field1883 - Edward Bradford Titchener
brings psychology to america
with the experimental
psychology structuralism1890 - William James writes
"Principles of Psychology"1946 - National Mental Health Act
funding made training programs
that would produce clinical
psychologists.1973 - Vail Coference on
Professional Training in
Psychology propose the
scholar-practitioner model1913 - Behaviorism became a
major force in American
Psychology
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