Wilhelm Wundt Facts
Wilhelm Wundt Facts
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| Wilhelm Wundt was born in Neckarau, Germany where his father was a Lutheran Minister. |
| In 1836 the family moved to Baden-Wurttemberg. |
| He graduated with a degree in Medicine from the University of Heidelberg in 1856. |
| In 1858 he became an assistant to Hermann von Helmholtz. |
| Between 1858 and 1862 he wrote Contributions to the Theory of Sense Perception. |
| In 1867 he became a professor at the University of Heidelberg where he created the first course in the science of psychology. |
| He emphasized the relationship between the physiology of the brain and the mind and stressed the use of the scientific method. |
| Between 1863 and 1864 he published Lectures on the Mind of Humans and Animals. |
| In 1874 he wrote Principles of Physiological Psychology which was the first textbook on psychology. |
| He explained his methods to study feelings, emotions and ideas as part of physiology. |
| In 1875 he joined the faculty at the University of Leipzig. |
| In 1879 he created the first laboratory exclusively for the study of the mind. |
| This event is marked as the creation of psychology as an independent science. |
| In 1883 he founded the first journal devoted to psychological research. |
| Wundt believed that analysis of the conscious mind was of primary importance. |
| His research was important to the development of psycholinguistics. |
| Wundt believed that "inner psychological construction" determines the resulting sentence and should be considered a unit of speech. |
| Wundt created the idea of heterogony of ends in "Logik," which he wrote in 1886. |
| Heterogony of ends states that the experiences of goal-directed activity often modify the original goal. |
| An optical effect that was first described by him is named the Wundt illusion. |
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