Psychology 3950F/G Lecture Notes - James Mckeen Cattell, Hermann Von Helmholtz, Sound Pressure
3 Dec 2013
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Worked with johannes muller (law of specific nerve energies) Privatdozent in physiology and assistant to hermann von helmholtz (1857-1864) Founded a laboratory at leipzig (1875: n. b. William james also started a laboratory at harvard in 1875. Fully established by 1879 denotes the birth of psychology. Trained many of the second generation of psychologists: in america: g. stanley hall, james mckeen cattell, james angell, and edwin titchener. In germany: emil kraeplin, oswald kulpe, and hugo munsterberg. Principles of physiological psychology (1873 and 1874) Physiological psychology: the marriage of physiology and psychology: physiology: observations using the senses (echoes locke, psychology: inner observation (echoes plato and descartes) Also published volkerpsychologie (folk psychology: close to what we could call social psychology today, but its main study was language. Founded and edited the journal philosophical studies (renamed psychological studies: probably the first psychology journal to come into existence, started the journal because he needed a place to publish his work.
