FASH 162 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Countermovement, Hypnosis, Research
17 Aug 2020
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Chapter 4 establishing psycholgy as an independent academic discipline. The foundations of the first laboratory of experimental psychology in germany. For a long time, universities in germany were dominated by humanities and religion. During the enlightenment, this was bound to be changed. The enlightenment went hand-in-hand with pietism (= protestant movement, promoting a revival of practical and devout christianity). Alliance between enlightenment and pietism lasted only a couple of years. The enlightenment ideas mainly came from a group of academics who had been expelled from the. University of leipzig, because of their critical attitude and modern ways of thinking. With the defeat of the holy roman empire (defeat of napoleon), school systems got reorganized, new university models got installed, which focused on science and trained physicians, lawyers, (scientific research became a part of the academic career). Wundt and the first laboratory of experimental psychology. Wilhelm studied with helmholtz (measurement of speed of signal transmission in nerves)
