PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Johns Hopkins University, Wilhelm Wundt, Scientific Method
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Mounted a campaign to make psychology an independent discipline rather than a stepchild of philosophy or physiology. In 1879, wundt succeeded in establishing the first formal laboratory for research in psychology at the. 1881, wundt established the first journal devoted to publishing research on psychology. Declared that psychology should be a science modelled after fields such as physics and chemistry. According to wundt, psychology"s primary focus was consciousness the aware of immediate experience. Psychology became the scientific study of conscious experience. > kept psychology focused on the mind and mental processes. > methods psychologists used to investigate the mind be as scientific as those of chemists and physicists. Toward the end of the 19th century, hall related off a series of firsts for american psychology. > he established america"s first research laboratory in psychology at john hopkins university in 1883. > four years later, he launched america"s first psychology journal.
