Wundt believed that properly trained individuals would
be able to identify accurately the mental processes that accompanied feelings, sensations, and thoughts.
Wundt believed that properly trained individuals would
be able to accurately identify the mental processes that accompanied feelings, sensations, and thoughts.
While many think of Sigmund Freud as the first psychology practitioner,
it was Wilhelm Wundt who opened the first psychology lab in 1879.
In the mid 1880s, Wundt trained two psychologists,
Hugo Münsterberg and James McKeen Cattell, who had a major influence on the emergence of I/O psychology.
Wundt sought to examine human consciousness using
an experimental method he called introspection(for interested researchers, he did not use the scientific method as experiments weren't able to be duplicated).
Although modern, scientific psychology is often dated at the 1879
opening of the first psychological clinic by Wilhelm Wundt, attempts to create methods for assessing
and treating mental distress existed long before.
In this section, I try to explain Wilhelm Wundt's proposal and how it differs
from other introspective processes of the mind such as those proposed by philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle.
But once heard a lecture of the German psychologist Wundt changed his life,
and he became interested in psychology, and in 1885 even defended his thesis and received a doctorate in this specialty.
Wundt admitted that the fundamental in those psychological properties,
the compounds of which form different types of temperament, are two main(basic, basic) characteristics that are associated with the dynamics of the flow of subjects' emotional sphere.
Moreover, in contrast with early psychologists Wilhelm Wundt and William James,
who studied the mind via introspection, the behaviorists argued that the contents of the mind were not open to scientific scrutiny and that scientific psychology should only be concerned with the study of observable behavior.