Carl Pumpf Timeline

April 21st 1848 – Carl Stumpf is born.

• Carl Stumpf was a German psychologist and scholar who was interested in the scientific study of music and spatial perception. Stumpf is historically linked with phenomenology which is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view. He is also credited as the founder of the Berlin Institute of Psychology. 1879- The first psychology lab is established.

• The first psychology lab was established by Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzig located in Germany. Known as the “father of experimental psychology”, Wundt had a significant influence on the development of psychological studies, notably in the United States. This lab signified the

Stanley Hall as its first president. Today it is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. The APA now has a multitude of specialist, analyst, professors, clinicians and students as its members. 1896- The first psychological clinic was developed.

• The first psychological clinic was developed at the University of Pennsylvania marking the birth of clinical psychology. Clinical psychology explores the areas of mental illness, abnormal behavior and psychiatric problems. The clinic came to fruition by Lightner Witmer when he agreed to treat a boy who had trouble with spelling. The subsequent success of his treatment led to him opening the clinic and emphasizing a devotion to helping children with learning disabilities

1905- IQ test is developed

• Albert Binet and Theodore Simon developed the Binet-Simon Scale after the French government asked for help in deciding which students were mostly likely to experience difficulty in school. The test focused on attention, memory and problem-solving skills. With the test, Albert Binet also came up with the concept of mental age in relation to physical age. The Binet-Simon scale became the blueprint for future intelligence tests and is still in use

He concluded that the brain reshapes and repairs itself into adulthood based on life experiences, dismissing the earlier given notion that the brain reached full maturity in childhood.

1933- Inez B Prosser awarded doctorate.

• Inez Prosser was a teacher and school administrator at the University of Cincinnati. Inez made history when she became the first African-American female to receive a PhD in psychology. Her dissertation "examined personality differences in black children attending either voluntarily segregated or integrated schools and concluded that black children were better served in segregated schools". (Inez, 1933) She died shortly after receiving her doctorate in a car accident.

1954-Brown v. Board of Education.

• In 1954, The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the historical Brown v. Topeka Board of Education. The ruling made segregation illegal in public schools. This decision in part relied on psychological and social science data on the effects of segregation that were prepared by a committee of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI—APA Division 9) that included Kenneth B. Clark, PhD, Isidor Chein, PhD, and Stuart Cook, PhD (Benjamin & Crouse,