Wilhelm Wundt – Father of Psychology

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of Mannheim, Kingdom of württemberg — 31 August 1920, Leipzig)

— German physician, physiologist and psychologist. Mostly known as the founder of experimental psychology. Less well known as a major figure in social psychology, however, the last years of life of Wundt were marked by the psychology of peoples , which he understood as the study of the social basis of higher mental activity.

understand the human mind by studying the component parts of

human consciousness, as well as in the study of complex chemical substances break it into its constituent elements. Thus, Wundt was represented psychology is a science, similar to physics and chemistry, in which consciousness is a set of shared and identifiable parts. These ideas of Wundt were developed by Edward Titchener, the former at one time a student of Wundt. Titchener has developed a system of Wundt, his ideas formed the basis of the concept of structuralism in psychology. Structuralism was unable to compete in the Anglo-American scientific community with more natural for American science functionalism, created based on the ideas of William James, and is currently distributed mainly in European science.

research on scientific and physiological methods, he often used the

method of introspection, which today is not considered as scientific, because it is not empirical and does not give reproducible results.

one of the fathers of modern psychology. Several of his

works, for example, "Principles of physiological psychology", are the classic and fundamental works in the field of psychology. But, over time, psychological science has gone far ahead and the impact of the results of Wundt on modern research has been questioned by many experts.

number of fields of knowledge, he published works on philosophy,

psychology, physics, physiology. The vastness of its print heritage, long 65-year career in science is that it is even difficult to build a unified picture of his activities. Undoubtedly, however, Wundt was a loyal fan of fundamentalism, tirelessly working to build a consistent and unified picture of the natural world, understood from the point of view of atomism.