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1879
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Voluntarism- Wundt opened the first psychological labratory in Leipzig, Germany. Wundt was concerned with the empirical study of the conscious human mind and laws that govern the mind.
1890
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Functionalism adopted a developmental viewpoint conscious experience was a function. G. Stanley Hall, Harvard, John's Hopkins. Genetic psychology implying the developmental nature of psychological processes. Mental life as the primary subject matter. Very similar to structuralism with some differences.
1890
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Titchener- early 1890's established a psychology program at Cornell University labeled as Structuralism. Emphasized description of content and structure of consciousness based on reactions and introspection. Did not include cultural anthropology. Held a place for a description of mental phenomena.
1894
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G.J. Romanes: 1848-1894 Continuation across species was question. Did observation of animals correspond to human behavior? The study and observation of animals could potentially infer to human behavior regarding imitation, delayed response procedures, multiple choice procedures.
1913
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Columbia University lecture by John B. Watson- Watson- Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It. The first phase of behavioral movement. Classic Behaviorism was introduced.
1924 - 1924
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Brain was not an instigator of action with faculties per region. Synapses and gaps between stimulus and response conveyed via neural impulses. Consciousness was not an existence. It was a process of associative memory and the process could be explained as a series of mechanical reactions to stimuli in the environment.
1930
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Shortcomings of classical behaviorism became obvious. Mediational S-O-R Behaviorism. Woodworth 1929. Discussion of organic states which included motives, response tendencies, and purposes.
1936 - 1936
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The physiological study of reflex processes. Vladimir Bechterev and Ivan Pavlov contributed to research on the reflexology suggesting a chemical and physical process was involved in a response.
1938 - 1938
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Skinner published his first book The Behavior of Organisms. Skinner coined the notion of behaviorism: the analysis or study of observable behavior.
1958 - 1958
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Ferster and Skinner established the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior