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French Revolution
Members of the Third Estate took control over France, The Bastille was assaulted and the declaration of the rights of Man and of the Citizen was passed. -
Independence
Colombia's Independence. -
On the Origin of Species
On the origin of Species, is a work of scientific literature by cHARLES darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. -
Discovered Area
Paul Broca discovered an area in the left cerebral hemisphere that is important to speech production (Broca´s area - neuropsychology). -
Psychology laboratory
Wilhem Wundt opened the first experimental psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig in Germany. -
Structuralism
structuralism is the methodology that implies elements of human culture must be understood by way of their relationship to a broader, overarching system or structure, such as things that humans do, think, perceive, and feel. -
Psychology Lab US
Stanley Hall created the first experimental psychology lab in the US at John Hopkins university. -
Functional Psychology
William James is considered the founder of functional psychology (this is the study of consciousness). -
APA
APA was founded by a group of men that were interested in "the new psychology". -
Psychoanalysis
Freud develops psychoanalysis concepts. He then becomes the "father of Psychoanalysis". -
IQ Test
Using standarized tests, Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon develop a scale of general intelligence on the basis of mental age. IQ tests. -
Behavioural Manifesto
John B watson published "Psychology as a behaviourist views it" also known as the behavioural manifesto. -
First World War
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand triggered first world war. -
Russian Revolution
The russian revolution started. -
Rosarch Inkblot Test
Rorschach developed the test as a diagnostic tool for schizophrenia, since the inkblots are a projection of the real world for them, and schizophrenics would have radically different answers. Later it became a personality test. -
Gestalt Theory
the creators of the theory are Max Wertheimer, Fritz Perls, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Köhler. This theory states that the sum of something is more than the individual parts, it's also known as the Law of Simplicity -
Electroencephalography (EEG)
Hans Berger invented the EEG, and the alpha wave, which helped to record brain waves. -
Second World War
Hitler's Germany invaded Poland and triggered the Second World War. -
PET Scan
The PET scan started in the 1950`s. It stands for Position Emission Tomography. -
First Computer was Invented
The article The magical number seven plus minus two is about how the short term memory of the human can carry 7 or two more or two minus things, of any subject. Not too long later, the first computer was created, being the competition to the human memory.. -
Ethical Standards of Psychology
this were published by the APA -
Behavioural Therapy
B.F. Skinner, an American psychologist, outlined behavioural therapy. -
FDA Approval
The FDA approved the drug "tricyclic" to fight depression and OCD. -
Tricyclic Drug Approved
The FDA approved a drug that was made to treat OCD and depression -
Apollo 11
The United State´s Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the moon. -
The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene was published by Richard Dawkins in 1976. It sparked in the academic community because it was a theory other than science that said that behaviour is a form of evolution. -
Discriminatory Standardised tests
U.S Judge Robert F. Peckham barred California public schools from using standardized IQ tests for determining whether academically struggling black students should be place in special classes for mentally retarded people. It was later found out that the test used were racially and culturally biased. -
Acts of Meaning
Jerome Brunner published the famous book "Acts of meaning". The book had an effect and purpose to argument on the global perspective that the cognitive revolution has led psychology from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings.