Wilhelm Wundt
German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor (1832-1920) · Germany · Academics · Died at 88
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Something wrong?He carved psychology out of philosophy's shadow and made it a science with its own lab, its own journal, its own questions - the first person to use the word "psychologist" for himself.
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, We call that psychical process, which is operative in the clear perception of a narrow region of the content of consciousness, attention.
The results of ethnic psychology constitute... our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.
The whole task of psychology can therefore be summed up in these two problems : (1) What are the elements of consciousness ?
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Wilhelm Wundt was a German physiologist and philosopher who saw that the mind could be studied with the rigor of a laboratory experiment. In 1879, at the University of Leipzig, he opened the first formal psychological research lab, marking the field's independence from philosophy and biology. He followed with the first academic journal dedicated to the new science, Philosophische Studien, in 1883, later replaced by Psychologische Studien in 1905. A 1991 survey of American historians of psychology ranked him first in all-time eminence - ahead of William James and Sigmund Freud by a wide margin. He died in 1920, having built the scaffolding on which a century of research would stand.
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