psychology timeline

1894 - Margaret Floy Washburn becomes the first woman to earn a Ph.D in psychology

1988 - American Psychological Society was founded with the central mission of advancing psychological science

1600s - 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 field

1883 - Edward Bradford Titchener brings psychology to america with the experimental psychology structuralism

1890 - 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 model

1913 - Behaviorism became a major force in American Psychology