Psychogenesis of psychology

• Animism

  Direct cause of events and activities of man
• Democritus

  Theorized that the human mind is composed of atoms, which penetrate in and out of our system
• Plato


  Believed that the soul is distinct to man and it is god-given
• Functions of the soul (Aristotle)

  • Vegetative - deals with the basic maintenance of life
  • Appetitive - desire and motives
  • Rational - governs reason that is located in the heart
• Hippocrates

  Theorized that mental disorders arose from natural causes
• Galen


  Theorized the relation of temperament to physiological factors
• St Augustine of Hippo


  Introduced the method of introspection
• St Thomas of Aquinas


  Belief that when the body dies, the soul separates and becomes spirit
• Rudolf Gockel


  Attributed initial used of the term "psychology" in his writing "yucologia hoc est de hominis perfectione, anima ortu"
• Francis Bacon


  Psychology should separate from philosophy and psychology should be treated as a natural science
• Rene Descartes

  Introduced the idea of dualism
• Thomas Hobbes


  Human beings are physical objects and sophisticated machines whose Functions
• John Locke


  Idea on his concept tabula rasa, meaning mind is like a blank tablet that gathers its contents
• George Berkeley


  Idea of an individual becomes true only to himself because this is the level of knowledge that he believes in
• Christian von wolff

  Had his theory of reality
• David hume

  Gave the difference between impression and ideas
• Franz Anton mesmer


  Utilized the method of animal magnetism in curing hysteria
• Immanuel Kant

  Stated that the mind is not blank, but rather mind is capable of acquiring knowledge through sensory experiences
• Johann Friedrich Herbart

  Responsible for making psychology as a science
• Ernst Weber

  It is necessary to be stimulated in order to be able to gain sensation
• Hermann von Helmholtz


  Made the theory of color vision
• Charles Darwin


  Introduced the theory of evolution
• Gustav Fechner

  Developed the laws of the connection between the mind and the body (quantitative relation)
• Paul Broca


  Person who suffered from damage to a specific area of the brain's left hemisphere may lose their ability to speak
• Francis Galton

  Father of behavioral genetics
• Wilhelm Wundt

  Father of modern scientific psychology
• William James


  Published the two-volume book "Principles of Psychology"
• Emil Kraepelin

  First to describe bipolar disorder
• Edward Titchener

  Developed the idea of structuralism
• Sigmund Freud


  Father of psychoanalysis
• Carl Jung


  Established Analytic Psychology
• Alfred Adler

  Conceptualized the importance of superiority and inferiority
• Karen Horney

  Theorized that human beings have the basic need for love and security
• Karl Pearson


  Developed the chi-squared test
• Charles Spearman

  First systematic psychometrician
• Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon

  Developed the first IQ Test
• Ivan Pavlov


  Developed the first experimental model of learning, Classical conditioning
• William McDougall

  Theorized that human behavior is determined by both instinctive and intentional strivings
• Edward Thorndike


  Father of educational psychology
• B.F. Skinner

  Contributed the system of operant conditioning