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Several founders of psychology worked during the same period that contributed to Freud's professional education and discovery. Many historical psychologists would argue that the following people would make the list of nominees for psychology: Wilhelm Wundt, William James, and Carl Rogers. However, most would say that Wilhelm Wundt is the one truly considered the father of psychology. The field of psychology as science had a late start than many other scientific areas expert study today.
In terms of the history of psychology, Scientific psychology, and educational psychology Wilhelm Wundt and William James made these fields groundbreakingly famous, both of whom had published many of the first psychological theories. Wilhelm Wundt was a German psychologist who contributed significant psychology theories established the first lab for psychology research and experimental psychology.
William James was considered the father of American psychology, establishing the first American lab for teaching clinical psychology, experimental psychology, and physiological psychology principles. Two other psychology fathers, Carl Rogers social psychology and Sigmund Freud psychoanalysis , promoted psychology as a science through their clinical practices with actual patients.
In psychology, William James is considered a father of psychology and Wilhelm Wundt, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Rogers because of his influential contribution to educational psychology and scientific psychology within the sphere of western psychology.
However, all four psychologists contributed numerous groundbreaking psychology theories. More specifically, James is considered the father of American psychology.
In , William James established the first American scientific lab to teach experimental psychology and psychology research theories. While Wilhelm Wundt proposed structuralism, William James established functionalism theory, which centered its argument around physiological psychology principles.
The theory of functionalism argued that human emotion came about by physiological changes occurring in reaction to external influences. Narendranath Sengupta is most famous for founding the Indian Psychological Association , the first experimental psychology department at the University of Calcutta, and being an integral part of establishing the Psychology and Educational Science division of the India Science Congress Association. Guardian David Boaz established the first psychology department at the University of Madras.
Depending on which expert in the history of psychology you ask, Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Rogers hold coveted positions among psychology fathers. Wilhelm Wundt and William James are especially popular for their work in psychology research. While Carl Rogers and Sigmund Freud are more well known for their breakthroughs in clinical psychology. Only in this way can one explain the. This would be impossible if the whole had not been represented at the outset.
The accomplishment of the judgment-function therefore consists, from the psychological point of view, only in our successively making the obscure outlines of the total picture [ Gesammtbild ], so that at the end of the composite thought-act the whole, too, stands more clearly before our consciousness. It consists in constantly interacting processes : on the one hand, there are associative processes that fuse sensations into elemental representations.
As an activity attention is an expression of will; since consciousness just is attention in its shifting forms, it is the activity of will manifested in the selection, combination, and separation of disposable representations PP II: In other words, as the apperceptive activity becomes increasingly intense it seems as it were to rise above the field of perception, above the field of its own constructs, becoming aware of itself as pure activity, as pure self -consciousness:.
PP II: [ 40 ]. As we have seen Section 3. For if it does not, then these phenomena could never be more than a chaotic muddle, of which there could be no science. Natorp The PPP has caused a great deal of confusion in the secondary literature, which persists in characterizing it as a metaphysical [ 42 ] doctrine somehow derived from Leibniz e. He is therefore not an epiphenomenalist, as some commentators have claimed.
Wundt a: , ff. Van Rappard Wundt compares the distinction between psychological and physiological explanation to the different viewpoints taken by chemistry and physics of the same object, a crystal. Similarly, neuro- physiology and psychology do not describe different processes, one neural and one mental, but the same process seen from the outside and the inside, respectively.
As Wundt writes,. Wundt a; quoted at Natorp Whereas experimental psychology focuses in the first place on the effects of the physical outer upon the psychic inner , the willing consciousness is characterized by intervening in the external world, that is, by expressing the internal PP I: 2.
This latter feature of consciousness lies beyond the scope of experiment, because the origins of conscious expression cannot be controlled.
While Wundt had already discussed the role of a VP necessary for the completion of psychology in his early writings, it was not until old age that he committed himself to its realization. This quotation is important. While VP does not concern itself with historical or linguistic facts as such, this does not mean that it is not concerned with individuality. Indeed, it is through the study of the psychological motives only apparent in history or language—i. L III: , Just as psychology is an alternative perspective to that of physiology, so too within psychology VP provides an alternative perspective to that of experimental psychology.
Wundt considers none of these various perspectives dispensable, since each one is a complement necessary for total science. There is just one empirical world and reality, but many irreducible varieties of experience. As we have seen, Wundt was concerned not only with expanding the set of known psychological facts, but also with interpreting them within an appropriate explanatory framework.
Of course, the necessity of establishing such a closed framework distinct from physiology amounted to distinguishing psychological causality from physical causality in general, and hence psychology from the natural sciences altogether.
As these relationships are laid out below, it must always be remembered that although these four areas—psychology, philosophy, natural science, human science—are irreducible, this irreducibility is not a metaphysical or ontological one, but merely one of explanatory function and commensurate methodology. They do not have distinct objects, but again merely represent ways of describing irreducible perspectives upon the same object, namely experience. Objects of science do not in and of themselves yield starting points for a classification of the sciences.
Rather, it is only regarding the concepts that these objects call for that we can undertake this classification. Therefore, the same object [ Gegenstand ] can become the object [ Objekt ] of several sciences: geometry, epistemology, and psychology each deals with space, but space is approached in each discipline from a different angle.
SP I: 12—3; cf. The most obvious is that neither can lay claim to synthetic knowledge that is not founded or also describable in terms of the natural or human sciences. Hence, while strictly speaking he is committed to considering psychology i.
This is because psychology is hybrid , adapting scientific methodologies to its particular aims; in this sense psychology, although part of philosophy, synthesizes facts, just like the sciences.
By contrast, its negative or critical role is to regulate the sciences in accord with the imperative of consistent systematicity. This explanation then provides to philosophy the scientific foundation for its pure task. The former include mathematics; the latter study the natural and spiritual aspects of reality, [ 49 ] and correspondingly are divided into the natural and the human sciences. The former just is the science of psychology; the latter includes the general study of these products as such e.
Since the process precedes the product cf. In this way psychology as a science mediates between the sciences and philosophy. For Wundt, however, this task involves psychology, and indeed much of his Logik is devoted to this topic. As he reasonably points out, logic comprises the rules of correct thinking, and the principles of logic are known to us as conscious representations L I: 76; 13; cf.
Wundt ; thinking and consciousness are objects of psychological inquiry; therefore any account of logic must include a psychological description of the genesis of logical principles L I: Even the normative character of logic had, in his view, to be given a psychological interpretation cf.
Farber , , ff. How can we reconcile these statements? Their psychological immediacy does not, Wundt thinks, compromise their normativity, since what is given in consciousness precisely is their normative character. Let us briefly describe these. Because, as was described above, thinking is. L I: 76—7. A thought [ Gedanke ] may exhibit immediate certainty, obvious without any mediating thought-acts; or a thought may be mediately certain, grounded in prior thought-acts.
Immediate and mediate evidence have their source and foundation in intuition Anschauung : immediate evidence immediately, mediate evidence mediately L I: 82—3. Intuition is not identical with evidence, for evidence only. By the standards of such philosophers as Husserl, Natorp, and Frege, Wundt appears committed to a logical psychologism. But it is worth considering his response to this charge, for it again illustrates his monistic perspectivism.
Wundt b: Wundt finds a simpler solution in his perspectivism. But there are no logical laws that are not also describable psychologically, just as there is no psychological phenomenon not also describable physiologically. The logical description saves the phenomenon of normativity, just as the psychological description saves the phenomenon of the interiority of consciousness.
This was not the outcome Wundt had desired. He never saw his psychological scientism as a threat to philosophy—on the contrary, he considered his psychology to be a part of philosophy cf. Boring , one necessary for philosophy to take its proper place in the totality of the sciences.
Indeed, philosophy could only assume that position through the mediating position of psychology PP I: 3. Yet academic philosophers, denied the possibility of any legislative or executive functions in the sciences, rejected the juridical ones as well, bitterly resisting contamination of their pure pursuit by the empiricism of the new psychology.
In Germany, resistance was especially stiff among neo-Kantians, and later the Phenomenologists. If Wundt has a big idea, it is that Being is a single flow of Becoming with many sides and many ways of being described. Consequently we , as part of this Being, have many ways of describing and explaining it. Few have as unblinkingly accepted the consequences of their starting points, or more doggedly pursued them to their various ends as Wundt.
This implied that the same methods used in the natural sciences could be used to study mental phenomena. After studying medicine, he worked as a physiologist at Heidelberg University and later at Leipzig University.
In , at Leipzig University, he set up the first laboratory dedicated to experimental psychology. In doing so, he separated psychology from philosophy and biology and became the first person to be called a psychologist.
At first he did this by studying reaction time - systematically changing the stimuli he presented to participants and measuring how long it took them to respond - inferring that the longer it took to respond, the more mental processes must be involved. He used the laboratory to identify abnormal behaviors, mental disorders as well as explore the nature of religious beliefs and find damaged parts of the brain. His research established psychology as a separate science.
Wilhelm Wundt is also associated with founding the first psychological research journal in The asteroids Vundita and were named after Wilhelm Wundt to honor him. Wilhelm Wundt was born on August 16, in Neckarau, Baden.
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