I am 12 years old and in the 7th grade. I have an upcoming Social Science project that I would appreciate advice! The theme is Revolution, Reaction, and Reform. I need advice on where to begin my research with times and or figures that brought the greatest changes in Psychological history. I am very interested in Psychology.Thank you to anyone who is willing to help.

-- Conley Braun (celtic@att.net), August 31, 2001

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Response to Seeking Topic HELP for project theme: Revolution,Reaction, Reform

One major revolution in psychology came when physiologists and physicists such as E.H. Weber, Gustav Fechner, Hermann Helmholtz, and Wilhelm Wundt started applying experimental methods to psychology during the middle part of the 19th century.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), September 05, 2001.

Response to Seeking Topic HELP for project theme: Revolution,Reaction, Reform

Speaking only of Western Psychology, Sigmund Freud was probably the founding father. Carl Gustav Jung was one of his pupils and following disagreements with Freud left him and set up his own school. He is a very interesting man who developed Freud's theory of the unconscious to something I consider much more valid. Start with those two. Modern Psychology encompasses very little of these two men, if any, much to its detriment, especially in the case of Jung.

-- Philip Chapman (dolphinholmer@hotmail.com), August 31, 2001.

Response to Seeking Topic HELP for project theme: Revolution,Reaction, Reform

Hi Conley, OK under the topic of Reform, look up Simon Binet and see the part he played in educational reform which might be said to have been caused by the Industrial Revolution. Here you will see a part psychology played in helping to solve social problems brought about by the new laws for compulsory education in the late 1800s. The method of testing which he devised served as the model for many psychological tests which followed. Good luck, David

-- david clark (doclark@yorku.ca), September 01, 2001.