 1920 - Watson and Rosalie Rayner publish

HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF research on classical conditioning of fear with

their subject, Little Albert.
PSYCHOLOGY  1932 - Jean Piaget becomes the foremost
 1878 - G. Stanley Hall becomes the first
cognitive theorist with the publication of his
American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology. He
work "The Moral Judgment of Children."
would eventually found the American
 1942 - Carl Rogers develop the practice of
Psychological Association.
client-centered therapy which encourages
 1879 - Wilhelm Wundt established the first
respect and positive regard for patients.
experimental psychology lab in Leipzig, Germany
 1952 - The first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
dedicated to the study of structuralism. The
of Mental Disorders is published.
event is considered the starting point of
 1954 - Abraham Maslow publishes "Motivation
psychology as a separate science.
and Personality" describing his theory of a
 1883 - G. Stanley Hall opens the first
hierarchy of needs. He is among the founders of
experimental psychology lab in the U.S. at John
humanistic psychology.
Hopkins University.
 1958 - Harry Harlow publishes "The Nature of
 1885 - Herman Ebbinghaus publishes his seminal
Love" which describes the importance of
"Über das Gedächtnis" ("On Memory") in which
attachment and love in rhesus monkeys.
he describes learning and memory experiments
 1961 - Albert Bandura conducts his now-famous
he conducted on himself.
Bobo doll experimentin which child behavior is
 1886 - Sigmund Freud begins offering therapy to
described as a construct of observation,
patients in Vienna, Austria.
imitation, and modeling.
 1888 - James McKeen Cattell becomes the first
 1963 - Badura first describes the concept of
professor of psychology at the University of
observational learning to explain personality
Pennsylvania. He would later publish "Mental
development.
Tests and Measurements" marking the advent of
 1974 - Stanley Milgram publishes "Obedience to
psychological assessment.
Authority" which describes the findings of his
 1890 - William James publishes "Principles of
famous obedience experiments.
Psychology." Sir Francis Galton establishes
 1980 - The DSM-III is published.
correlation techniques to better understand the
 1990 - Noam Chomsky publishes "On Nature,
relationships between variables in intelligence
Use, and Acquisition of Language."
studies.
 1991 - Steven Pinker publishes an article
 1892 - G. Stanley Hall forms the American
introducing his theories as to how children
Psychological Association (APA), enlisting 42
acquire language which he late publishes in the
members
book "The Language Instinct."
 1895 - Alfred Binet forms the first psychology lab
 1994 - The DSM-IV is published.
devoted to psychodiagnosis.
 2000 - Genetic researchers finish mapping
 1898 - Edward Thorndike develops the Law of
human genes with the aim of isolating the
Effect.
individual chromosome responsible for mental
 1900 - Sigmund Freud publishes his landmark
dysfunction.
"Interpretation of Dreams."
 2002 - Steven Pinker publishes "The Blank Slate"
 1901 - The British Psychological Society is
arguing against the concept of tabula rasa (the
established.
theory that the mind is a blank slate at birth).
 1905 - Mary Whiton Calkins is elected the first
Avashalom Caspi offers the first evidence that
woman president of the American Psychological
genetics are associated with a child's response to
Association. Alfred Binet introduces the
insults. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman is
intelligence test.
awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his
 1906 - Ivan Pavlov publishes his findings on
research on how judgments are made in the face
classical conditioning.
of uncertainty.
 1907 - Carl Jung publishes "The Psychology of
 2010 - Simon LeVay publishes "Gay, Straight,
Dementia Praecox."
and the Reason Why" which argues that sexual
 1912 - Edward Thorndike publishes "Animal
orientation emerges from prenatal
Intelligence" which leads to the development of
differentiation in the brain.
the theory of operant conditioning. Max
 2013 - The DSM-V is released. In it, the APA
Wertheimer publishes "Experimental Studies of
removes "gender identity disorder" from the list
the Perception of Movement" which leads to the
of mental illnesses and replaces it "gender
development of Gestalt psychology.
dysphoria" to describe a person's discomfort
 1913 - Carl Jung begins to depart from Freudian
with his or her gender.
views and develops his own theories which he
 2014 - John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and
refers to as analytical psychology John B. Watson
Edvard Moser shared the Nobel Prize for their
publishes "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views"
discovery of cells that constitute a positioning
in which establishes the concept of behaviorism.
system in the brain key to memory.
 1915 - Freud publishes work on repression.