PSYC 100A Chapter Notes - Chapter Prologue: Mary Whiton Calkins, Margaret Floy Washburn, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100A
• Professor: Martin Sherer Smith

Document Summary

Staffed wilhelm wundt and psychology"s first graduate students established the first psychology research laboratory at the university of leipzig, germany (1879) Structuralism was an early school of thought that was promoted by wilhelm. Wundt and edward titchner; using introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind: introspection proved somewhat reliable. Returned back to medical school but had deteriorating physical and mental health and was forced to leave again and took this time to travel around europe. Learned about new science called psychology which took a modern, scientific approach to the age-old question about human nature (which appealed to him during his own personal search for meaning) Returned back to america, finished his medical degree and became a professor at harvard university. Mary whiton calkins finished all of harvard"s ph. d. requirements, outscoring all of the male students on the qualifying exams.