1. Psychology Where did it come from?

2. Where did Psychology come from? What caused psychology to become a science? What are its historical roots? Does that tell us where it is going?

3. Early Civilization Psychology has its origins in ancient civilization. As far back as Egyptian society skulls show these types of cut marks.

4. Ancient Greece Socrates stated to his students “know thyself” Aristotle wrote the book Peri Psyche Hippocrates discussed the four humors.

5. Middle Ages It was not unusual for people with mental disorders to die in treatment. They were often chained, naked, in wards. Beaten and abused.

6. The year 1879 Wilhelm Wundt Medical Doctor in Leipzig Germany Starts the first Psychological Laboratory Founder of Structuralism

7. William James Psychology Professor at Harvard. Coins the phrase “stream of consciousness” Wrote the first Psychology Text: Principles of Psychology

8. Kenneth B. Clark Jumping ahead to 1947 Clark adds a level of diversity to psychology. Landmark study on the negative effects of segregation

9. Behaviorism John B. Watson Father of American Behaviorism Believed that if you are going to study human behavior you need to study humans.

10. Gestalt Psychology Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

11. Psychoanalytic Sigmund Freud Founder of the Psychoanalytic School of thought Medical Doctor

12. Behaviorism B. F. Skinner Harvard University Professor Developed the concept of Operant Conditioning. Known for the Skinner Box.