PSYC 403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Wilhelm Wundt, Wilhelm Von Humboldt, New Approach
24 Mar 2020
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1879 the birth of modern psychology in leipzig, germany. Unique circumstances at leipzig university: new style: teaching, research and application, the german universities have been modernized according to the design prepared by. Wilhelm humboldt: philosophy: struggle rationalism vs. empiricism, there was a hot debate between theoretical rationalists vs. empiricists who supported the development of the applied sciences, advances in: Probably motivated by his childhood experience of having his father paralyzed by a stroke. Research and t. a. in physiology and anthropology to prof. helmholtz at heidelberg university: 1865 unofficial laboratory in the haus zum riesen , chronometry; tachistoscope. Tachyscope a projector linked to the timer allowing to present a visual stimulus in milliseconds. E. g. , to measure the s-r reaction time - chronometry: lectures psychology as a natural science . A fashionable term, popular in xix c. Natural selection, natural history, natural biology, etc.
