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A Timeline of Psychology

In less than a century, psychology was born in a laboratory, split into rival schools, and circled back to the mind it started with. Step through the founders. Each one changed what psychology chose to study. Then test yourself on who asked what.

Pick a milestone

What it studied

Who asked this?

Read the idea. Tap the school of thought it belongs to.
Seven turning pointstap one, or press Next to walk the timeline
Why a timeline?As a science, psychology is only about 150 years old. Watching it change, from introspection to behavior to the modern study of the mind, makes each perspective easier to keep straight. Start with Wundt, 1879.