Important dates in psychological history
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Fechner's Mind
& Body Insight
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Fechner Day!1800
Gall/Spurzheim
Phrenology
Collaboration
Begins1802
Thomas Young
Publishes Theory
of Color Vision1804
Lewis & Clark
Expedition
Begins1809
Charles Darwin
& Abraham
Lincoln Born On
The Same Day1822
Francois Magendie
Publishes on Sensory
and Motor Nerves1817
Weber is
Appointed a
Teacher in
Physiology
at Leipzig1829
James Mill
Publishes in
Association1831
Spurzheim
Dies During
U.S. Tour1834
Weber publishes
on the "Sensation
of Touch"
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Weber's Law and
"just noticeable
differences (JNDs)"1834
Charles Darwin
Arrives at the
Galapagos Islands1833
"Scientist"
is coined
as a term1802
"Biology"
is coined
as a term1838
Johannes Müller
publishes his
"Elements of
Physiology"1843
J. S. Mill publishes
"A Sytem of Logic"1843
Flourens
Disproves
Phrenology1844
American
Psychiactric
Association
is founded1842
"Dinosaur"
is coined
as a term1848
Phineas
Gage's
Accident1848
Beginning
of the
California
Gold Rush1854
Helmholtz on
the speed of
neural impulse1858
Wundt begins work
as an assistant to
Helmholtz in his lab1859
Charles Darwin
publishes "On
the Origin of
Species"
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Theory of
Evolution1860
Gustav Fechner
publishes "Elements of
Psychophysics"
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Systematization of the
methods used to
establish thresholds1861
Paul Broca
studies and
autopsies "Tan"1861
Start of U.S.
Civil War1865
End of U.S.
Civil War1863
Wundt publishes
"Lectures on
Human and
Animal Psychology"
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Early research on
psychophysics and
reaction time1863
Lincoln's
Gettysburg
Address1867
Russia sells
Alaska to
the U.S.1870
Fritsch/Hitzig:
first electrical
stimulation of
the brain1871
Darwin publishes
"Descent of Man"
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Sexual Selection1872
Darwin publishes
"Expressions of
Emotions"1874
Wundt publishes
"Lectures on Human
and Animal Psychology"1876
Graham-Bell
invents the
telephone1877
Darwin published
an article in "Mind"
called "Biographical
Sketch of Infant Son"1879
Official founding
of Wundt's lab at
Leipzig.1885
Ebbinghaus publishes
"Memory" studies
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CVCs, serial learning,
forgetting curve, etc.1888
James Cattell
measures Galton's
Anthropomorphic
Lab1889
Jack the Ripper
wreaks havoc
on London.1892
APA is
founded.1636
Descartes
publishes
"Discourse
on Method"1664
Willis publishes
"The Anatomy
of the Brain"1690
Locke publishes
"Essay Concerning
Human Understanding"1710
Berkeley publishes
"Treatise Concerning
the Principles of
Human Knowledge"1739
Hume publishes
"A Treatise of
Human Nature"1749
Hartley publishes
"Observations on Man,
His Frame, His Duty,
and His Expectations"1751
Whytt publishes
"The Vital and Other
Involuntary Motions
of Animals"1811
Bell publishes
pamphlet: "Idea
of a New Anatomy
of the Brain"1825
Herbart publishes
"Psychology as a
Science"
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Psychological
principles can be
established
mathematically1832
Spurzheim publishes
"Outlines of
Phrenology"
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Phrenology's Five
Main Principles1869
Galton publishes
"Hereditary Genius"
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intelligence = innate1862
Wundt publishes
"Contributions to a
Theory of Sensory
Perception"
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Calls for strictly
experimental approach
to basic psychological
questions;
aka "New Psychology"1864
Wundt publishes
"Principles of
Physiological
Psychology"1881
Wundt publishes
"Philosophical Studies"
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First journal designed
to report the results of
experimental research
in psychology.1883
Romanes publishes
"Animal Intelligence"
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Detailed catalog of
animal behaviors;
Earned him the title
of founder of
comparative psych1906
Sherrington publishes
"Integrative Action of
the Nervous System"
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Deduced the existence
of the synapse1538
Vesalius publishes
"Tabulae Anatomicae
Sex" (aka "Six Plates")1543
Vesalius publishes
"De Humani Corporis
Fabrica" (aka "The Fabric
of the Human Body")1914
Boring gets PhD
under Titchener
at Cornell1922
Boring began
his career at
Harvard until
retirement1929
Boring publishes
"A History of
Experimental
Psychology"1957
Boring began teaching
psychology on an
educational TV series"1908
"Psychology has a
long past, yet its
real history is short."
-Ebbinghaus1937
France commemorates
Descartes's 300th
anniversary of "Discourse
on Method" by putting
his face on a stamp.1596
Descartes
is born.1675
Thomas Willis
is born1632
John Locke
is born1643
Isaac Newton
is born1646
Gottfried Liebniz
is born1685
George Berkely
is born1705
David Hartley
is born1711
David Hume
is born1714
Robert Whytt
is born1724
Immanuel Kant
is born1743
William Paley
is born1758
Franz Josef Gall
is born1774
Charles Bell
is born1776
Johann Herbart
is born1776
Johann Spurzheim
is born1783
Francois Magendie
is born1794
Jean Pierre Flourens
is born1795
Ernst Weber
is born1801
Gustav Fechner
is born1801
Johannes Muller
is born1806
John Stuart Mill
is born1807
Theodor Bischoff
is born1809
Charles Darwin
is born1821
Hermann von Helmholtz
is born1822
Francis Galton
is born1824
Paul Broca
is born1832
Wilhelm Wundt
is born1838
Gustav Fritsch
is born1838
Eduard Hitzig
is born1843
David Ferrier
is born1844
Publication of
"Vestiges of Creation"
keeps Darwin from
publishing theory of
evolution.1858
C. Darwin receives
"Wallace Letter"
outlining a theory
similar to Darwin's
Theory of Evolution1894
Morgan's Canon
is proposed1904
Seperate group,
"Experimentalists,"
in response to APA
beginning1905
E. G. Boring encounters
psychology for the first
time at Cornell in a class
taught by Titchener1917
Russian
Revolution1564
Galileo Galilei
is born1561
Sir Francis Bacon
is born1609
Galileo constructs
a telescope
(20x power)1452
Galileo Galilei
is born1475
Michaelangelo Buonarotti
is born1614
Descartes drops
out of college1649
Descartes
publishes
"The Passion
of the Soul"1650
Decartes dies
of pneumonia1693
Locke publishes
"Some Thoughts
Concerning
Education"1662
British Royal
Society is
established1709
Berkeley publishes
"An Essay Toward a
New Theory of Vision"1865
J. S. Mill publishes
"Examination of Sir
William Hamilton's
Philosophy"1869
J. S. Mill publishes
"The Subjection
of Women"1781
Kant publishes
"Critique of
Pure Reason"1788
Kant publishes
"Critique of
Judgement"1790
Kant publishes
"Critique of
Practical Reason"1822
Bell-Magendie Law1840
Johannes Muller
publishes his
"Handbook of
Human Physiology"1838
Helmholtz began
studies in the army's
medical corps1842
Helmholtz receives
his medical degree1847
Helmholtz privately
published a paper on
the Law of Conservation
of Energy1849
Helmholtz begins
work at the University
of Konigsberg1737
Luigi Galvani
is born1791
Galvani published
extended research
on electrical properties
of nerve impulses1856
Helmholtz published
the first volume of
"Handbook of
Physiological Optics"1863
Helmholtz publishes
"The Theory of
Sensation and Tone
as a Physiological
Basis for the Theory
of Music"
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Resonance Theory1785
Gall earns his
MD in Vienna1807
Gall settles in Paris
for the remainder
of his life1843
Flourens publishes
"Examinations of
Phrenology"
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Disproves phrenology1876
Ferrier publishes
"Functions of
the Brain"
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Localization search
for sensory areas1870's
Golgi created the
first clear pictures
of nerve cells using
the silver nitrate
staining technique1889
Ramon y Cajal
proposes his
neuron theory1822
Fechner earns his
MD from Leipzig1830's
Weber includes
study of visual
afterimages1839
Fechner resign from
professorship due to
damage to his eyes
that led to neurosis1860
Fechner establishes
Psychophysics1855
Wundt earns his MD
from the University
of Heidelberg1857
Wundt is offered a
teaching position
at U of Heidelberg1875
Wundt arrives
at Leipzig1865
Wundt leaves
Helmholtz's lab,
but remains at
Heidelberg1871
Wundt is promoted
to "Extraordinary
Professor" at
Heidelberg1917
Wundt
retires1897
Wundt's lab
gets an upgrade1818
F. C. Donders
is bornLate 1860's
Donders developed
the subractive method
to measure mental
activity1860
James Cattell
is born1892
E. B. Titchener
earns his MD
at Leipzig1870's
Ebbinghaus read
Fechner's "Elements of
Psychophysics" and
launched experimental
study of human memory1895
Ebbinghaus invented
a sentence completion
test similar to IQ test1890
Ebbinghaus starts a
research journal for
studies on sense
organs in his lab1881
G. E. Muller begins work
as an experimenter in
the psychology lab at the
University of Gottingen1890's
E. G. Muller and his
students replicated
and elaborated on
many of Ebbinghaus'
findingsEarly 1880's
Kulpe took a psych
course with Wundt.1887
Kulpe earns his
doctorate at Leipzig
and remains working
under Wundt for 7yrs1894
Kulpe is called back
to Wurzburg where
he created a lab that
was considered to be
second only to Wundt's1802
Paley publishes
"Natural Theology"
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Argument From
Design1731
Erasmus Darwin
in born1744
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
is born1827
C. Darwin leaves
medical studies
at U of Edinburgh
and heads to
Cambridge to study
for the clergy1828-1831
C. Darwin studies at
Cambridge while in
regular contact with
some of the leading
scientific minds1796
John Henslow
is born1797
Charles Lyell
is born1837
C. Darwin moves to
England as his health
declines post-Beagle1766
Thomas Malthus
is born1838
C. Darwin read essay
by Malthus that defined
life as a "struggle for
existence"1839
C. Darwin publishes
a journal of the voyage
on the Beagle1823
Alfred Russel Wallace
is born1825
Thomas Huxley
is born1840
Douglas Spalding
is born1860's
Spalding began animal
research on instinct,
imprinting, and critical
periods.1864
Flourens introduces
comparative psych1890
Morgan publishes
"Animal Life and
Intelligence"
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Comparative psych1895
Morgan publishes
"Introduction to
Comparative
Psychology"1899
Linus Kline publishes
"Suggestions toward a
Laboratory Course in
Comparative Psychology"
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influenced instruction
in comparative psych1874
Galton publishes
"English Men of Science:
Their Nature and Nurture"
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ability/talent = innate1888
Galton publishes
"Co-relations and their
Measurement, Chiefly
From Anthropomorphic
Data" paper
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invented statistical
concept of correlation1909
Galton earns
Knighthood1843
Camillo Golgi
is born1848
Carl Wernicke
is born1848
George Romanes
is born1850
Hermann Ebbinghaus
is born1850
Georg Elias Muller
is born1852
Conwy Lloyd Morgan
is born1852
Santiago Ramon y Cajal
is born1857
Charles Sherrington
is born1862
Oswald Kulpe
is born1886
E. G. Boring
is born1906
Nobel Prize for
Medicine awarded
to both Golgi and
Ramon y Cajal for
the same research
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