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Wilhelm Wundt was a German psychologist recognized as the father of experimental psychology. He founded the first psychological laboratory in 1879 at the University of Leipzig and made significant contributions to the study of consciousness and the structure of the mind. Wundt's work laid the groundwork for modern psychology.

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“Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in its turn, needs to know the physiological aspects of sensory function, in order rightly to appreciate the psychological.”

Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology

“Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.”

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“Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.”

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“Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.”

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Book:Principles of Physiological Psychology

Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology

“The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.”

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Book:Principles of Physiological Psychology

Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology

“The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.”

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Author:Wilhelm Wundt

About the Author

Born: August 16, 1832
Died: August 31, 1920
Known for: Psychologist
Quotes: 37

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