History of Experimental Psychology

 

The history of experimental psychology is explained below configuring important works of different scientists in a series of timeline.

1874, Wilhelm Wundt published the first experimental psychology textbook, Principles of Physiological Psychology. Experimental psychology emerged as a modern academic discipline in the 19th century.

1875,William James opened a psychology lab in the United States. The lab was created for the purpose of class demonstrations, rather than to perform original experimental research.

1879, the first experimental psychology lab was founded in Leipzig, Germany.

1883, G. Stanley Hall opened the first experimental psychology lab in the United States.

1885, Herman Ebbinghaus published his famous on Memory. A Contribution to Experimental Psychology.

1887, George Truball Ladd published his textbook Elements of Physiological Psychology, the first American book to include a significant amount of information on experimental psychology.

1887, James McKeen Cattell established the world's third experimental psychology lab at University of Pennsylvania.

1890, William James published his classic textbook, The Principles of Psychology.

1891, Mary Whiton Calkins established an experimental psychology lab at Wellesley College, becoming the first woman to form a psychology lab.

1892, G. Stanley Hall founded the American Psychological Association, the largest professional and scientific organization of psychologists in the United States.

1920 - John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayners conducted their now famous Little Albert Experiment, in which they demonstrated that emotional reactions could be classically conditioned in people.

1929, Edwin Boring's book A History of Experimental Psychology was published. Boring was an influential experimental psychologist who was devoted to the use of experimental methods in psychology research.

1955, Lee Cronbach published Construct Validity in Psychological Tests, which popularized the use of the construct validity in psychological studies.

1961, Albert Bandura conducted his now famous “Bobo Doll Experiment”, which demonstrated the effects of observation on aggressive behavior.

Ernest Heinrich Weber, he was a German physician who is the founder of experimental psychology. His main focus was the sense of touch.

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