Timeline
The following timeline consists of psychology's greatest pioneers (1879 - 1913), and what they accomplished.
| Wilhelm Wundt | G. Stanley Hall | Hermann Ebbinghaus | William James | Edward L. Thorndike | Sigmund Freud | Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon | Mary White Calkins | Ivan Pavlov | Margaret Floy Washburn | John B. Watson |
| (1879) | (1883) | (1885) | (1890) | (1898) | (1900) | (1905) | (1905) | (1906) | (1908) | (1913) |
| establishes first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig, Germany | establishes first American psychology laboratory at Johns Hopkins University | in Germany reports the first experiments on memory | publishes the widely used Principles of Psychology in the U.S. | in the U.S. conducts the first experiments on animal learning | in Austria introduces his psychoanalytic theory in The Interpretation of Dreams | publish the first intelligence test for use with Parisian schoolchildren | creates paired-associates technique for studying memory; bcomes president of American Psychological Association (est. 1892) | in Russia begins to publish his classic studies of animal learning | the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology, synthesizes research on animal behavior in The Animal Mind | in the U.S. champions psychology as the science of behavior |