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“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.”

Quote by Wilhelm Wundt

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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. more

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