Name: _____________________________________________
Date: _______________________
Psychology’s Timeline:
Directions: This activity will take you on a tour through the history of psychology. You will learn how psychology grew
out of philosophy and medical physiology, and will become acquainted with some of the pioneers of psychology as a
scientific discipline. Use the website below (PsychSim 5.0) to take brief notes on the dates & contributions of important
people in the development of modern psychology. You won’t find them a few of them at the site below, but don’t let
that stop you from finding out what they are! I will expand upon these events in class.
http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/gray/content/psychsim5/launcher.html
Famous Psychologists:
Before looking below, can you think of any famous psychologists from psychology’s history? Write their names here:
The History of Psychology
Idea
Date
Stone Age
Philosophical Roots
Trephining/Trepanning:
Plato
Aristotle
Hippocrates/Galen & Humorism
The Renaissance
Descartes
Locke
Pseudosciences
Phrenology
Mesmerism
Physiological Roots
Helmholz
Darwin
Fechner
Pioneers of
Psychology
Wundt
Titchener
James
Hall
Ebbinghaus
Calkins
Sumner
20th Century
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
1890s
Behaviorism
1910s
Schools of thought: Shared theory and research method. There are several competing schools of thought in
modern day psychology.
Sigmund Freud
Thorndike
Washburn
Pavlov
Watson
Skinner
Cognitive
1920s-
Piaget
Chomsky
Humanism
1960s
Maslow
Rogers
Sociocultural
1960s-70s
Neurobiological
1980s-90s
Response:
Which of these ideas or people do you find most interesting and why?