1. Democritus
( BC)
Lao Tzu
Buddha
( BC)
Francis Bacon
( )
Sigmund Freud
Reformation
(1517)
Rousseau
( )
Moon Landing
1969
Columbus reaches America
(1492)
Heraclitus
( BC)
Hippocrates
( BC)
Aristotle
BC)
John Locke
( )
B.F. Skinner
St. Paul
(5-67 AD)
Nietzsche
( )
René Descartes
( )
David Hume
( )
Copernicus
( AD)
Theory of Relativity (1905)
Pythagoras
( BC)
Socrates
( BC)
Library of Alexandria Founded
Philo
(20 BC – 50 AD)
William of Occam
( AD)
St. Augustine
( AD)
James Mill
( )
Isaac Newton
( )
Principles of Behavior (1943)
On the Origin of Species (1859)
Galileo
( AD)
Confucius
( BC)
Jesus
(4BC-35AD)
Fall of Rome
(410AD)
Muhammad
( AD)
St. Thomas Aquinas
( AD)
Martin Luther
( AD)
Thales
( BC)
Plato
( BC)
American Revolution
(1776)
First Digital Computer
1940
Periodic Table of Matter 1869
Spinoza
( )
700 BC BC BC BC BC BC BC
Pre-Socratic Period
Classical Period of Greece
Hellenistic Period
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The Dark Ages
Middle Ages
Spanish Inquisition
Islamic Expansion
Crusades
Renaissance
John Stuart Mill
( )
Kant
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Ivan Pavlov
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Thomas Hobbes
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Leibniz
( )
Gustav Fechner
( )
Freud publishes Interpretation of Dreams in 1900
Hegel
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John Watson
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Wilhelm Wundt
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Carl Jung
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Karen Horney
( )
William James
( )
Max Wertheimer ( )
First Incandescent Light Bulb (1800)
B.F. Skinner
( )
Principles of Psychology published (1890)
Ernst Weber
( )
Sigmund Freud
( )
Elements of Psychophysics published
(1860)
Wilhelm Wundt
( )
Hermon von Helmholtz
( )
Jean Piaget
( )
G.S. Hall founds the Journal of Applied Psychology
(1910)
Johannes Muller
( )
First psychology lab established (1879)
Edward Thorndike
( )
Theory of Relativity (1905)
American Journal of Psychology published (1887)
Cable Television (1948)
Journal of Cognitive Psychology
(1969)
Telephone invented in 1876
Washburn first woman to attain PhD in psychology (1894)
Helmholtz publishes on the speed of nerve conduction (1854)
Sperry wins Nobel Prize for Split Brain Research (1981)
William James
( )
Binet and Simon develop first intelligence test
(1910)
John Stuart Mill
( )
Origin of the Species
(1859)
Ernst Weber
( )
Gustav Fechner
( )
Erik Erikson
( )
Edward Tichener
( )
Moon Landing
(1969)
American Psychologist 1st Published
Psi Chi founded
APA Founded
(1892)
Wright Brothers' First Flight (1903)
Roger Sperry
First federal mental hospital opens on (1855)
Edward Tolman
( )
John Watson
( )
Psychological Abstracts
1st Published
Periodic Table of Matter (1869)
First Digital Computer
(1940)
Sputnik launched on (1957)
Civil Rights act passes in (1964)
American Psychological Society Founded (1988)
Human Genome Deciphered (2000)
First Atomic Bomb Dropped (1945)
Alfred Adler ( )
Apple II Computer is Introduced (1977)
Abraham Maslow ( )
Neisser Publishes Cognitive Psychology (1967)
George Miller
1920- Present
Adolph Hitler ( ))
Witmer establishes first psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania
(1896 )
Daniel Kahneman
awarded Nobel Prize for research on Judgment and Decision-Making
Carl Rogers ( )
Noam Chomsky
1928- Present
Masters and Johnson publish Human Sexual Response (1966)
Voluntarism
Psychobiology/Neuroscience
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Psychoanalysis
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Behaviorism
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Cognitive Psychology
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