Wilhelm Wundt

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1836-1920

historical figures

mentalism

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milestones

  • 1855: graduated medical school in Heidelberg

  • briefly assisted Muller

  • assistant to von Helmholtz for 6 years

  • 162: published book on sensory perception

  • 1867: teaching “physiological psychology“

  • lectures made into book - Principles of Physiological Psychology (1874)

  • 1875: appointed professor of philosophy in Leipzig

  • 1879: opened first psychological lab


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inspirations

  • Heidelberg: love for science

  • Bunsen: inspired first research - effects of restricting salt intake on chemical composition of urine


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thoughts on psychology

isn’t the science of ‘inner’ experience because there’s no distinction between them - it deals with both

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Principles of Physiological Psychology (1874)

  • argued that the intro of experimental methods to study psychological phenomena was originally due to modes of procedure in the physiology of the sense organs

  • physiological psychology = early experimental psych for this reason


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distinguishment

  • able to separate psych from philosophy and physics

  • made distinction between experiences that are DEPENDENT vs INDEPENDENT of observer


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experiences

  • independent of observer = mediate experiences

  • dependent on observer = immediate experiences