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Wilhelm Wundt Biography

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (16 August 1832 – 31 August 1920) was a German physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. Wundt, who noted psychology as a science apart from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology". In 1879, Wundt founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research at the University of Leipzig. This marked psychology as an independent field of study. By creating this laboratory he was able to establish psychology as a separate science from other topics. He also formed the first academic journal for psychological research, Philosophische Studien (from 1881 to 1902), set up to publish the Institute's research.

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In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.

Important, Mind, Nutrition, Phenomena, Science, Sensation

Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.

Hands, Hold, Life, Psychology

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

Complex, Ethnic, Information, Mental, Psychology, Time

Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations joined to certain central cerebral processes. . . It is contradicted by the fact of consciousness itself, which cannot possibly be derived from any physical qualities of material molecules or atoms.

Law, Processes, Psychical, Psychology, Qualities, Quality

Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.

Experimental, Metaphysical, Problem, Problems, Psychology

Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.

Accordingly, Environment, Life, Names, Phenomena, Self

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

Consciousness, Forces, General, Nervous, Process

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.

Class, Concepts, Inquiry, Mental, Psychology

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

Animal, Child, Children, Ontogeny, Physiological, Psychology

The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.

Men, Thinking, Psychology, Hold, Old, Disappeared

Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.

Conceptual, Hands, Ideas, Long

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

Analysis, Merely, Observation, Psychology, Relatively, Science

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

Heuristics, Materialistic, Point, Psychology, Value, Views

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

Accessible, Failing, Fails, Psychological, Psychology, Sources

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

Assistance, Ethnic, Forms, Hands, Individual, Psychology

Psychology must not only strive to become a useful basis for the other mental sciences, but it must also turn again and again to the historical sciences, in order to obtain an understanding for the more highly developed metal processes.

Order, Psychology, Understanding, Metal, Strive

The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.

Act, Ideas, Investigation, Medicine, Philosophy, Sciences

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

Fields, Life, Physiology, Psychology

Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

Apparent, External, Influence, Instigation, Movement, Sometimes

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

Attitude, Feelings, Large, Medicine, Philosophy, Psychology

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