History of psychology The pioneers of American psychology
are found in philosophy and physiology. philosopher John
Locke (1632–1704) and Thomas Reid (1710–1796) promoted
empiricism. The idea that all knowledge comes from experience.
Works by Locke, Reid, etc. Emphasized the role and sensory
dominance of human observers in defining methods The mind .
Physiology and Psychophysics Philosophical questions about
the nature of the mind and knowledge were adjusted on the
19th A century of physiological research on the sensory
system of human observers. German
Human senses are wrong, and the reason can be measured by
scientific methods. Overall, it was suggested that the science of
psychology is feasible. An important meaning of
Helmholtz's work is psychological reality. Speculation about
the nature of the mind is the subject of strict science in . How
to measure the relationship between physical stimuli and
human cognition This serves as the basis for new psychology
Fancher & Rutherford, 2011. The formal development of
modern psychology is largely due to the work of the Germans.
Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920), doctor,
physiologist, philosopher. Establishing the Department of
Experimental Psychology as a Source of Powerful Ideas The
Department of Psychology is a laboratory for experimental
fields, lessons, textbooks and student training. He soon began
planning to create an experimental psychology program. In
1879 he supplemented a lecture on experimental psychology
, in the laboratory. Around the world to study new experimental
psychology and work in his lab. This was shown by the work
of Wundt and his students The mind could be measured,
which revealed the nature of consciousness Only four years
have passed since the opening of Wundt`s laboratory in 1879.
As a Wundt student, Titchener introduced the American logo of
experimental psychology known as "structuralism."
Structuralists are interested in Titchener, and the general
adult idea of experimental psychology develops rapidly
throughout North America. American
. Titchener's first PhD student will be a woman from Margaret
Floy Washburn (1871–1939). Many Barriers, In 1894,
Washburn became the first woman to earn a PhD in the
United States. 1988 , American Psychological Association (now
Psychological Association)
The experimental psychology spread quickly throughout
North America. By 1900, there were more than 40 laboratories
in the United States and Canada (Benjamin, 2000). Psychology
in America was also soon organized with the founding of the
American Psychological Association (APA) in 1892.
Wilhelm Wundt was a German psychologist who founded the
first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in 1879. This
fact is widely recognized as the birth of a major knowledge of
psychology as a science separate from biology and philosophy.