Wilhelm Wundt was a German physiologist and psychologist, who is widely credited as the founder of experimental psychology. Wundt is also acknowledged as one of the greatest and most influential psychologists of all time.
Born in Neckarau, Germany, Wilhelm Wundt was the fourth child of a Lutheran minister. Despite coming from a family that boasted numerous scholars, scientists, and physicians, Wundt initially was not a good student. After he dropped out of one high school, a teacher suggested that a reasonable goal for Wundt would be a career in the postal service. Wundt’s scholastic abilities improved, however, and in 1855 he graduated at the top of his class in medical school. Wundt then went to Berlin to study physiology with Johannes Müller, and he subsequently decided to become an experimental physiologist himself. Wundt then returned to the University of Heidelberg, where he worked as an assistant for Herman von Helmholtz. It was at Heidelberg that Wundt taught his first course in psychology. The year was 1862.
In 1879, at the University of Leipzig, where he held a chair in philosophy, Wundt established the Institute for Experimental Psychology, the first laboratory whose formal purpose was the scientific investigation of the human mind. Wundt is one of the most prolific contributors to the field of psychology ever. It is estimated that between the years of 1853 and 1920, Wundt wrote 53,735 pages of text. Wundt was not only a voracious writer; he was also responsible for training numerous researchers, some of whom, such as Edward Titchener, brought versions of Wundt’s psychology to America.
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Wundt is credited to be the founder of expiremental psychology. He is responsible for training great amounts of researchers.
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Wilhelm Wundt is the true founding father of psychology! I find it interesting how Sigmund Freud receives all the credit that Wilhelm Wundt should be getting.
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Wilhelm Wundt: Founder of psychology; first to open a lab and do experiments to study the mind; separating philosophy from biology and philosophy.
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Wundt having been one of the greatest and most influential psychologists of all time, he was the founder of experimental psychology. One of the most profilic contributors to the field of psychology ever.
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i agree how he said that consciousness could be studied through experimentation. the founding father of psychology
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Read and understood. Pioneer of experimental psychology.
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What i got from this theorist is that sometimes one person criticism can push you to become better in your life. That’s why Wundt succeeded and became the father of psychology
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Thanks to his teacher, Wundt went back to school and became the founding father of psychology.
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i think he was the founder of psychology.
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The founder of Psychology
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The founder of the Experimental Psychology. I always think how hard it was to create something that doesn’t existed, and be recognized for that. Psichology isn’t easy to be accepted nowadays, so I imagine how it was on the back days.
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founding father
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I find it very interesting that he dropped out of school, I find that most profound theories are discovered by people who stand up to think differently this why he was the first psychologist.
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he is the founder father of experimental psychology.
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Father of Experimental Psychology. He separated psychology from philosophy and biology and became the first person to be called a psychologist.
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