Evolutionary Psychology

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Pre-Socratic Period

Classical Period of Greece Hellenistic Period Greco-Roman Period The Dark Ages Middle Ages Spanish Inquisition

Crusades RenaissanceIslamic Expansion

Confucius (551-479 BC)

Library of Alexandria Founded

Thales(624-546 BC)

Jesus(4BC-35AD)

Fall of Rome(410AD)

Pythagoras(570-495 BC)

Heraclitus(535-475 BC)

Socrates(469-399 BC)

Hippocrates(460-370 BC)

Democritus(460-370 BC)

Plato(423-347 BC)

Aristotle384-322 BC)

Muhammad(570-632 AD)

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Voluntarism

Functionalism

StructuralismPsychoanalysis

BehaviorismGestalt Psychology

Social Psychology

Cognitive Psychology

Psychobiology/Neuroscience

Humanistic Psychology

William James(1842-1910)

Theory of Relativity (1905)

US Civil War WWI Great Depression WWII Korean War Vietnam War Iraq WarGulf War

Afghanistan War

Lao Tzu Buddha(563-483BC)

Philo(20 BC – 50 AD)

St. Paul(5-67 AD)

St. Augustine(354-430 AD)

St. Thomas Aquinas(1225-1274 AD)

William of Occam(1288-1348 AD)

Martin Luther(1483-1546 AD)

Galileo(1564-1642 AD)

Copernicus(1473-1543 AD)

René Descartes(1596-1650)

Columbus reaches America

(1492)

Reformation (1517)

Isaac Newton(1642-1727)

Francis Bacon(1561-1626)

James Mill(1773-1836)

John Stuart Mill(1806-1873)

John Stuart Mill(1806-1873)

Spinoza(1632-1677)

Hegel(1770-1831)

Leibniz(1646-1716)

Kant(1724-1804)

John Locke (1632-1704)

Thomas Hobbes(1588-1679)

David Hume (1711-1776)

Nietzsche(1844-1900)

American Revolution

(1776)

Rousseau(1712-1778)

Johannes Muller(1801-1858)

Hermon von Helmholtz

(1821-1894)

Ernst Weber(1795-1878)

Ernst Weber(1795-1878)

Gustav Fechner(1801-1887)

Gustav Fechner(1801-1887)

Wilhelm Wundt(1832-1920)

Wilhelm Wundt(1832-1920)

William James(1842-1910)

Edward Tichener(1867-1927)

Edward Thorndike

(1874-1949)

Origin of the Species

(1859)

First psychology lab established (1879)

Elements of Psychophysics published

(1860)

Principles of Psychology published (1890)

Helmholtz publishes on the speed of nerve conduction (1854)

Washburn first woman to attain

PhD in psychology (1894)

American Journal of Psychology published (1887)

Ivan Pavlov(1849-1936)

John Watson(1878-1958)

APA Founded(1892)John Watson

(1878-1958)

Binet and Simon develop first intelligence test

(1910)

G.S. Hall founds the Journal of Applied Psychology

(1910)

On the Origin of Species (1859)

Principles of Behavior (1943)

Theory of Relativity

(1905)

Max Wertheimer (1880-1943)

Telephone invented in 1876

Edward Tolman(1886-1959)

B.F. Skinner1904-1990

B.F. Skinner(1904-1990)

Psi Chi founded

Psychological Abstracts1st Published

American Psychologist 1

st Published

Cable Television (1948)

Wright Brothers' First Flight (1903)

Adolph Hitler (1889-1945)

)

First Atomic Bomb Dropped (1945)

First Incandescent Light Bulb (1800)

Alfred Adler (1870-1937

)Abraham Maslow (1908-1970

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Carl Rogers (1902-1987)

Periodic Table of Matter (1869

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Periodic Table of Matter 1869

First federal mental hospital opens on (1855

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Witmer establishes first psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania

(1896 )

Freud publishes Interpretation of Dreams in 1900

Sputnik launched on

(1957)

Civil Rights act passes in

(1964)

Sigmund Freud1856-1939

Sigmund Freud(1856-1939)

Carl Jung(1875-1961)

Erik Erikson(1902-1994)

Karen Horney(1885-1952)

Moon Landing(1969)

Moon Landing1969

Jean Piaget(1896-1980)

Roger Sperry1913-1994

George Miller1920- Present

Noam Chomsky1928- Present

First Digital Computer

(1940)

First Digital Computer

1940

Masters and Johnson publish Human Sexual Response

(1966)

Neisser Publishes Cognitive Psychology

(1967)

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

(1969)

Apple II Computer is Introduced (1977)

Sperry wins Nobel Prize for Split Brain Research (1981)

American Psychological Society Founded (1988)

Human Genome Deciphered (2000)

Daniel Kahneman awarded

Nobel Prize for research on Judgment and

Decision-Making