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Quote by Wilhelm Wundt

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

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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“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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“Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.”

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“Psychology is a very unsatisfactory science.”

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“Psychology must not only strive to become a useful basis for the other mental sciences, but it must also turn again and again to the historical sciences, in order to obtain an understanding for the more highly developed metal processes.”

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“Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer from such manifestations of the bodily life in other creatures as indicate the presence of a consciousness similar to our own.”

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“Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations joined to certain central cerebral processes... It is contradicted by the fact of consciousness itself, which cannot possibly be derived from any physical qualities of material molecules or atoms.”

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Book:Principles of Physiological Psychology

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