Psychology Archive
History
When the American students returned from Germany where they had studied Wundt’s psychology, they had to transform their knowledge into an applied science. The American Zeitgeist had tremendous
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One of the most influential philosophers of the 1860s in the USA was Herbert Spencer. He transcribed Darwin’s theory of the Survival of the Fittest to social and
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Functionalists are concerned with the question of brain function. The main idea of functionalism is that an organism has the power to adapt to its environment. Forerunners of
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Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) established the Leipzig laboratory and conducted many studies about the nature of conscious experience. He introduced the following terminology: voluntarism, which describes the mind’s ability
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The findings in the field of physiology radically changed the methods in scientific studies. By examining errors in measurement, F. Bessel gave evidence for Locke’s and Berkeley’s findings;
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Reconstructing Psychology’s Past. One of the problems in general history is to gather the past’s information and to determine whether the findings are real documents. Also, drawing conclusions
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