Many of these forests thrive around Africaâs other great rivers, the Zambezi, the Congo, and the Niger. However, trees are being cut down in Africaâs rain forests for many of the same reasons deforestation is taking place in the rain forests of South America and Asia: development for businesses, homes, and agriculture.
Psychoanalysis remains influential within psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy, and across the humanities. As such, it continues to generate extensive and highly contested debate with regard to its therapeutic efficacy, its scientific status, and whether it advances or is detrimental to the feminist cause.
Wilhelm Wundt founded the first formal laboratory of Psychology at the University of Leipzig, marking the formal beginning of the study of human emotions, behaviors, and cognitions. 1883 The first laboratory of psychology in America is established at Johns Hopkins University.1885 Herman Ebbinghaus introduced the nonsense syllable as a means to study memory processes. 1886 Sigmund Freud began performing therapy in Vienna, marking the beginning of personality theory.1890 The term âMental Testsâ was coined by James Cattell, beginning the specialization in psychology now known as psychological assessment.898 Edward Thorndike developed the âLaw of Effect,â arguing that âa stimulus-response chain is strengthened if the outcome of that chain is positive.â. 1900 Sigmund Freud published âInterpretation of Dreamsâ marking the beginning of Psychoanalytic Thought. 1901 The British Psychological Society was founded.