Psychology Timeline

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 1899

Wilhelm 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 1856

Wundt established the first formal psychology lab at the University of Leipzig

Carl 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 all

Breur and Freud published studies in hysteria

B.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 1938

Albert 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 1961

APA publishes its revised Ethical Principles of Psychologists