520 International Psychology
The first International Congress
of Psychiatry, Neurology, and
Psychology took place in
Amsterdam. Carl Jung,
representing Freud, presented a
paper on his theories.
The first International Congress
of Psychoanalysis was
convened in Salzburg.
The Deutsche Gesellschaft fur
Experimentelle Psychologie was
founded. The organization
changed its name to the Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Psychologie
in 1929.1902190319041905190619071908The University of Madrid
established a chair in
psychology, the first such
position in the world at a
faculty of science.
Matataro Matsumoto,
educated at Yale, established
Japan’s first psychology
laboratories at Tokyo
University and the Tokyo
Higher Normal School
(which became the Tokyo
University of Education).
Ivan Pavlov first publicly
introduced his conditioned
reflex theory in a talk on
“Experimental Psychology
and Psychopathology of
Animals,” presented at the
International Congress of
Medicine in Madrid.
The Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, also known as
the St. Louis World’s Fair,
featured an exhibit of
psychological instruments
and sponsored a five-day
series of addresses by
prominent psychologists.
The vice-chancellor of
Calcutta University
introduced experimental
psychology as an
independent subject in the
postgraduate course syllabus.
Alfred Binet introduced the
Binet and Simon Intelligence
Scale at the 5th International
Congress of Psychology in
Rome.
Psychology in Italy was
officially acknowledged by
the establishment of chairs at
the universities of Rome,
Naples, and Italy.
The first Romanian Chair of
Psychology and Laboratory
of Experimental Psychology
were established at the
University of Bucharest.Cairo University introduced
psychology as a minor
subject in the philosophy and
sociology curricula.TABLE 25.1 (Continued)
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