PSY 3121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Behaviorism, Forgetting Curve, Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Wilhelm wundt concluded that it was impossible to perceive 2 things at the same. This was a measurement of the mind; the stimuli are registered sequentially. Wundt was the founder of psychology as a formal academic discipline. Vigorous promotion / selling of the idea of systematic experimentation. Established the first lab, edited the first journal and began experimental psychology as a science. Fechner is the originator but wundt sold the ideas; he wanted to make this a science. Family history of intelligence but wilhelm did not seem destined for the same. He disliked school but worked to develop his intellectual interests. Began wanting to be a physician but changed to physiology. He eventually began to conceive the study of psychology as an independent experimental science, mentioned in contributions to the theory of sensory perception . Established a lab at leipzig, created a handbook and scholarly journal: psychological. Students from this lab established labs in the us and other european countries.
