PSYC 1010 Chapter 1: Chapter One - Psychology

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Mounted a campaign to make psychology an independent discipline rather than a stepchild of philosophy or physiology. Succeeded in establishing the rst formal laboratory for research in psychology at the. Established the rst journal devoted to publishing research on psychology. His campaigned was so successful that today he is widely characterized as the founder of psychology. Borrowing from his training in physiology, wundt declared that the new psychology should be science modelled after elds such as physics and chemistry. According to wundt, psychology"s primary focus was consciousness - the awareness of immediate experience. Psychology became the scienti c study of conscious experience. This focus kept psychology on the mind and mental process. But it demanded that the methods psychologists used to investigate the mind be as scienti c as those of chemists and physicists: stanley hall. Studied brie y with wundt, was a particularly important contributor to the rapid growth of psychology in the united states.