HISTORY OF HISTORY OF THE BATES PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT Helen Chyz, Ali Millard, Naima Qambi, Mallory Ward and Professor Georgia Nigro

William James starts teaching 1874 a psychology course in the The course catalog for 1874- Wilhelm Wundt opens Physiology Department at 1875 1875 mentions a “Logic and In the 1875-1876 catalog, the first the first psychology Harvard in 1875. Psychology” course required mention of “Psychology” is as a laboratory at the for seniors during their fall course required for seniors during University of Leipzig in 1879 semester. both the fall and spring semesters. 1879.

The American 1892 Psychological In the 1894-1895 Association is founded 1894 catalog, President in 1892, with G. George Chase is Stanley Hall elected its listed as Professor of first president. Psychology and Logic. Wilhelm Wundt He is listed that way (seated) in a lab Conducting with students. experiments is until his death on May incorporated into 27, 1919. Sigmund Freud a psychology class Ivan Pavlov publishes the first publishes The for the first time in studies in classical conditioning Professors Robert Moyer (left) and L. Psychopathology 1901-1902. Ross Cummins (right) in 1971. of Everyday Life in 1906; two years before, he 1901 in 1901. won the Nobel Prize for his work with salivating dogs. 1906 In 1906-1907, the psychology course for juniors uses two textbooks, William 1913 James’s Briefer Course and James Angell’s John B. Watson publishes Psychology is Psychology. “Psychology as the listed as a separate Behaviorist Views It” in department from Psychological Review in 1924 philosophy in the 1913. 1924-1925 catalog.

Frank H. Glazier, class of 1928, Students in the Jean Piaget 1975 Advanced writes the first honors thesis in Statistics class publishes psychology on “The Psychology dressed up like Freud’s books are Judgment and 1928 Professor Drake of Advertising.” Bradley (right) publicly burned by the Reasoning in the for Halloween. Nazis in Berlin in 1933. Child in 1928. Freud and his family flee Vienna in 1938, Jean Piaget in Ann Arbor 1932 in the late 1960s. Professor Howell Lewis teaches an the same year that B.F. 1933 “Experimental Psychology” course Skinner publishes The for majors in a new lab in Libbey Behavior of Organisms. Forum in 1932. Instruments include a kymograph, a pneumograph, an Kurt Lewin 1945 illusion board, an aethesiometer, and establishes mirror drawing test. the Research Noam Chomsky Center for Group Students with Professor John Dynamics at MIT publishes his McCreary (standing) during the 1950s review of use a mirror drawing apparatus like in 1945. the ones used in Professor Howell Skinner’s Verbal Lewis’s Experimental Psychology Behavior in 1959, course described at left. which many 1959 Completing a Ulric Neisser believe launched A statistics course, thesis becomes publishes Cognitive the cognitive “Quantitative a necessary Psychology in revolution. Procedures,” is requirement for 1967, adding to the the psychology cognitive turn in taught for the first time in 1967-1968. major in 1967- psychology. 1968. A student working in Professor John Kelsey’s lab 1967 in 1985. The Association for Women in 1969 Psychology (AWP) is founded in 1969. 1970 Psychology is listed as its own The following year, Phyllis Chesler and department, separate from Nancy Henley present the Demand for education, in the course catalog Christine Ladd-Franklin Reparations ($1,000,000) for harms for 1970-1971. (1847-1930) psychologist and Vassar College done to women’s minds and bodies at graduate. an American Psychological Association Town Hall meeting in Miami. 1999 The Psychology Department

moves from Coram Library Professor Richard Wagner (middle, with

Sources into Pettengill Hall in 1999. dog) and Professor Drake Bradley (in suit) The Bates College Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library at the groundbreaking for Pettengill Hall, Street, W. R. (1994). A Chronology of Noteworthy Events in American Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. which opened in in 1999. http://www.freud.org.uk/education/timeline Photos from the personal collection of Professor Drake Bradley.