PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Ethnocentrism, Experimental Psychology, Margaret Floy Washburn
9 Nov 2012
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Psychology"s parents were the disciplines of philosophy and physiology: experts in those fields viewed questions about the mind as fascinating issues within their discipline. In 1879, wundt established the first formal laboratory for research in psychology, at the university of leipzig. Historians have christened 1879 as the year that psychology was born. In 1881, he established the first journal devoted to publishing research on psychology: he is widely characterized as the founder of psychology. Declared that it should be a science modeled after fields like physics and chemistry: according to wundt, psychology"s primary focus was consciousness - the awareness of immediate experience, g stanley hall - studied under wundt. Established america"s first research laboratory at john hopkins, in 1883. In 1887, he established the american psychological organization. Worlds largest organization devoted to the advancement of psychology. The battle of schools begins: structuralism vs. functionalism. Introspection: the careful, systematic self-observation of one"s own conscious experience.
