WILHELM WUNDT

Wilhelm Wundt

Born: AUG 16, 1832 - Neckarau, Mannheim, Baden Germany

Theory: Intraspection Theory

Died: AUG 13, 1920 - Grossbothen, Germany

American Psychologist

“Father of Experimental Psychology”

Academic Journals for psychological research:

1. Philosophische Studien (from 1883 to 1903)

2. Psychologische Studien (from 1905 to 1917)

Wilhelm Wundt

- distinguished psychology as a science from philosophy and biology

- the first person ever to call himself a psychologist

1879, at the University of Leipzig

- founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research.

Contributions to Psychology:

- created a broad research programme in empirical psychology

- developed a system of philosophy and ethics from the basic concepts of his psychology