Summary Origins of Psychology: Timeline (Psychology)

Origins of Psychology • John B Watson writes Psych
the Behaviourist view.
• Wilhelm Wundt opens the first • BF Skinner establishes the B
”Experimental Psychology Lab Approach.
in Germany. • Both Behavioural and Psych
• Psychology emerges as distinct Approaches dominate psych
discipline in its own right, the next 50 years.
separate to Philosophy. • Begins to be seen as a scien
Controlled Lab Experiment.




17th – 19th
1879 1900s 1913
Century




• Psychology is seen as a
• Sigmund Freud publishes
branch of philosophy,
“The Interpretation of
rather than a separate
Dreams.”
subject.
• The psychodynamic
Defined as “Experimental
Approach is established.
Philosophy”