Psychology Timeline
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Updated: 31 Jan 2020
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Created byMarie Compere
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Sigmund Freud
-Educational Background: University of Vienna
-Major Contribution: Founder of Psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology.
-Mentor: Jean Martin Charcot, Joseph Breuer
-Books Published: The Interpretation of Dreams, Nov 4th 1899Wilhelm Wundt
-Regarded as the “father of experimental psychology”
-Influenced a lot of the psychology field
-Founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research at the University of Leipzig
-Major publication: Principles of Physiological Psychology in 1873
-Earned his medical degree at the University of Heidelberg in 1856Wundt established the first formal psychology lab at the University of LeipzigCarl Jung
-Educational background: Undergrad- University of Basel Grad-University of Zurich
-Major contributions: idea of collective unconscious and representative archetypes
-Mentor: Sigmund Freud
-Major critiques of another person or school of thought
-Agreed with freud’s theory of unconscious
-Also believed in the collective unconscious that allBreur and Freud published studies in hysteriaB.F. Skinner
-Taught at Harvard University from 1958 to 1974
-Created the “Skinner box” in 1948 for shaping and counting lever-pressing in rats and key-pecking in pigeons
-Mentor: William Crozier from the Physiology Department at Harvard University
-Major publications: The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis in 1938Albert Ellis
-Educational Background: Columbia University, Baruch College
-Major Contribution: In 1955, he developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
-Mentor: Alfred Adler
-Books Published: A Guide to Rational Living, Published June 1961APA publishes its revised Ethical Principles of Psychologists
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