Some Milestones in Psychology

Human Behavior

People

• Jean-Martin Charcot
• Charles Davenport
• Sigmund Freud
• Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
• Harry Harlow
• Abraham Maslow
• Ivan Pavlov
• Wilder Penfield
• B.F. Skinner
• Roger Sperry
• John Watson

Discoveries

1900 Freud’s book, “The Interpretation of Dreams” released
1905 Binet pioneers intelligence testing
1913 Watson launches behaviorist school of psychology
1923 Eugenics movement reaches its height
1923 – 1952 Piaget describes stages of cognitive development
1935 Moniz develops lobotomy for mental illness
1938 Electroshock therapy introduced
1952 Drug for treating schizophrenia identified
1972 – 1985 CT scan and MRI introduced
1975 Role of endorphins discovered
1987 Antidepressant Prozac introduced
1993 Search for behavioral genes