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600 BC - 545 BC
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Thales invites students to improve on his thinking
400 BC
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Relates personality characteristics to body types and proposes a physiological theory of mental illness.
350 BC
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Stresses the objective observation of human behavior and proposes 3 principles to account for the association of ideas.
400 AD
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Influenced by platonic ideas, makes careful inspections in his book Confessions.
1650
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Characterizes the mind-body relationship as one interaction.
1651
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Foreshadows assciationism by declaring all ideas come from sensory experience.
1690
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Carries Hobbes' notion a step further by declaring at birth the mind is a blank slate.
1749
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Formalizes a doctorine of associationism and suggests a neurological basis for memory.
1781
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Critique of Pure Reason attacks associationsm and the nativistic approach.
1809
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Give prominence through phrenology to the study of mental faculties and brain function.
1821
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Performs the first significant experiments in localization of brain functions.
1822
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Measures individual differences in reaction time for astronomical observation.
1838
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Formulates the doctorine of specific nerve energies.
1846
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Derives the first quantative law in psychology.
1850
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Measures the rates of conduction of nerve impulses.
1859
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Publishes The Origin of Species, propounding the theory of evolution through natural selection.
1860
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Publishes Elements of Psychophyscis, presents various methods of measuring the relationship between stimuli and sensations.
1869
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Studies individual differences and applies Darwin's concept of selective adaptation to the evolution of races.
1879
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Opens the first formal psychological lab at the University of Leipzig.
1883
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Establishes the first psychological lab in America at Johns Hopkins University.
1885
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Publishes the first experimental studies in memory.
1890
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Principle of Psychology is published in the US.
1892
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At Cornell University establishes structuralism as major influence in American Psychology.
1898
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Performs some of the first controlled experiments on animal learning.
1900
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Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams, which presents many of his ideas on psychoanalysis.
1905
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Devise the first intelligence test.
1906
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Publishes the results of his studies on classical conditioning.
1908
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The publication of An Introduction to Social Psychology marks the formal inauguration of the field of social psychology.