Wilhelm Wundt

The father of Psychology and founder of experimental psychology Wilhelm Wundt, made his contribution to psychology from as early as 1856 when he strove for achievement as he attended the university of Heidelberg; Tracy B. Henley, etal, (2009/2014). there he wrote his first book and began his teaching career in scientific psychology; specifying in experiential methods which was derived for natural sciences and thinking about the Mind’s structure. Myers, (2010). The definition of psychology as relates to Wundt as quoted is the “study of the structure of conscious experience," Kaufmann,(2013 ). He also claimed that psychologists were in the process of proclaiming the understanding of knowledge cognizant in mandate to recognizing how these…

A Brief Study of Wilhelm Wundt When discussing the history of psychology, there are a few things that will always be brought up. There are a few people who will be mentioned in nearly every discussion held on the topic. Names like Freud, Jung, Pavlov or Skinner are sure to be talked about at length, but there is an even more important name to remember- Wilhelm Wundt, the “Father of Psychology”. He founded psychology as an academic discipline, established the first laboratory, edited the first…

mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context. Most identity with the date 1879 when German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt opened the first laboratory exclusive to the practice of psychology. However, this date is still disregarded as the beginning of psychology. Despite the major impact of the laboratory on the science. Persons' concerns are based on the influences to science prior to the laboratory. A number of great persons would have been very influential prior…

Philosophers have been thinking about the mind for centuries, however advancement of techniques during the 20th century allowed the discovery of measurable concepts such as reaction times, leading to the notion that a mathematical description of the mind is possible. With inputs from philosophy and sociology, and more recently from physiology and biology, the existence of two opposing approaches is created. ‘Neither of these definitions, however, is satisfactory to the psychology of today’…

In this essay I will discuss three psychologist I believe to be most influential in the psychological field. Wilhelm Wundt, the first psychologist I shall discuss, contributed to the establishment of psychology being classified as a separate science. He was able to achieve this by, setting up the first psychological laboratory in 1879 in Germany (http://www.simplypsychology.org/wundt.html) with the intention of carrying out experiments in carefully controlled conditions in order to find…

Laramie, Wyoming. Born to an Evangeline (Owen) Downey and Stephen Wheeler Downey, as the second of nine children, on July 13, 1875. Her father served as a colonel in the Union Army and one of the founders of the University of Wyoming. Downey attended Albany County Public Schools through grade school. Upon graduation, in 18 Downey attended the University of Wyoming, where she earned her Bachelor´s degree in Greek and Latin in the year 1895. In the year following, she taught at a local elementary…

Herman Von Helmholtz was a German psychologist the early to mid-nineteenth century. He made a plethora of different advancements in the psychological field, including the development of his theory of perception, theory of color vision, and theory of auditory perception (Hergenhahn & Henley, 2014). Apart from those contributions Helmholtz delved into different psychological questions and placed his view and response into these different psychological questions. These question, generally pertained…

DBQ 3 In August 4, 1914, the German Reichstag approved the mobilization of World War I and soon declared Burgfrieden, or civil peace. This peace was nationwide and meant that all conflicts within the nation should be set aside for the duration of the war. The initiation brought along an abundance of views and opinions, all of which were changing as the war progressed from 1914 to 1918. At first, the nation was primarily in support of government and their decisions of mobilizing the war and…

Radiology Research paper Scientist Wilhelm Roentgen accidentally discovered X-rays while studying the pathway of electricity. He realized this when he saw objects in the picture that wouldn’t usually appear in a normal photograph. Roentgen’s discovery was soon after, advanced further by Dr. Harvey Cushing in the first diagnostic clinical X-ray. 1902 was the first year they were used for ground breaking brain surgery, he used the technology to view and assist removing malignant and non-malignant…

Long gone are the days of doctors performing blind or exploratory surgeries in hopes of discovering an ailment in their patients. The discovery of the x-ray in 1895, by German physicist W.C. Roentgen, was a major contribution to modern medicine (NDT Resource Center). Years after the discovery of the x-ray, the dependency of such increased, “The number of radiographic and fluoroscopic studies skyrocketed from 25 million in 1950 to 293 million in 2006” (Herrmann et al). Due to the uptick and…