Wundt

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt is best known for being the father of experimental psychology and the founder of the first psychology laboratory. Wundt had a huge influence on the development of psychology as a discipline. Wundt was known to be a shy person but he dominated his areas of psychology. His scope was vast and his accomplishments outstanding. It is estimated that during his career he wrote around 53,000 pages. Some of his work includes articles on animal and human physiology, poisons, spiritualism, hypnotism, vision, politics, and history. Even though his work included physiology, psychology, and philosophy Wundt would not have considered himself an pluralistic thinker. His greatest dream was to establish a philosophical-scientific system …show more content…
Rather, it is only regarding the concepts that these objects call for that we can undertake this classification. Therefore, the same object [Gegenstand] can become the object [Objekt] of several sciences: geometry, epistemology, and psychology each deals with space, but space is approached in each discipline from a different angle. … The tasks of the sciences are therefore never determined by the objects in themselves, but are predominantly dependent upon the logical points of view from which they are considered. …show more content…
The problem was that from a physiological point of view, experimentation with stimulus and response are not experiments of sensation, instead they are of external reactions of nerve and muscle tissue. So if a nerve fiber is given an electric shock and twitches it is obvious that these experiments say nothing about the inner experience. Wundt's intention was to attempt to project the experimental rigor of physiology into the inner experience by supplementing these experiments with a purely psychological set of procedures. These procedures include Wundt's well-known method of introspection, or