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1849
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Ivan P. Pavlov was born. Pavlov brought one of the fundamental processes that alter behavior, the conditioned reflex, to the attention of the scientific community. He identified its functional elements and extensively studied its characteristics. Pavlov won the Nobel prize in 1904 for his work in digestion. |
1865
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George Stratton was born. Stratton is remembered primarily for the first studies of the effects of prolonged inversion of the visual field, finding that he readily adapted to this distortion and later suffered disorientation when his inverting lenses were removed. He also studied aesthetics and social behavior. APA President, 1908. |
1892
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Honorio Delgado was born. Delgado introduced psychoanalysis and German concepts of experimental psychology to Latin America. |
1915 |
Tsuruko Haraguchi (1886-1915) died on this date from tuberculosis at the age of 29. Haraguchi was the first Japanese woman the receive a Ph.D. in any subject. She earned her doctoral degree from Columbia University in 1912 focusing on mental fatigue. |
1922
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In Berlin, Sigmund Freud read his last paper to an International Congress of Psychoanalysis. The title was "Some Remarks on the Unconscious." This was the last Congress that Freud attended. |
1941 |
Donald T. Stuss was born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. After spending six years as a monk followed by time spent teaching high school and coaching football, Stuss earned his doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Ottawa. Among his accomplishments, Stuss was the founding director of the Rotman Research Institute in 1989 which focuses on memory and brain functions. RRI became a model for similar institutes. Stuss died September 3, 2019. |
1968
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Nelson Goodman's book Languages of Art was published. |
1969
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The Soviet Union issued a postage stamp honoring Ivan Pavlov. |
1986 |
APA Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) approved the creation of Section 6 (Ethnic Minority Clinical Psychology). Gail E. Wyatt served as the section's president for the first two years. |
1989 |
The antipsychotic drug Clozaril (clozapine; Sandoz Pharmaceuticals) was approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Clozapine inhibits the action of the neural transmitters serotonin and dopamine and appears to cause fewer undesirable side-effects than chlorpromazine and haloperidol. Clozapine was the subject of a Time magazine cover story on July 6, 1992. |
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