PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: American Psychological Association, Wilhelm Wundt, James Mckeen Cattell
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From speculation to science: how psychology developed: people better understanding themselves, as it developed, its focus, methods, and explanatory models have changed. Psychology psyche (soul, spirit, or mind) and logos (study of a subject: study of the mind. In 1879, wundt established the first formal lab for research in psychology at the. It was focused on the mind and mental processes demanded that methods should be very scientific: generated approx. 54 000 pages of books/journals in his career: many young scholars learned from wundt and established labs in germany and. North america (where it grew the most: between 1883 and 1893, approx. 24 new research labs sprang up in the us and. Canada many were started by wundt and his students: stanley hall, studied briefly with wundt important contributor to the rapid growth of, established america"s first research lab in psychology at johns hopkins psychology in america.
