1. Wundt and the Founding of Psychology
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2. Wundt's Teachers
J. Müller: 1855 Wundt studied with him for a year in Berlin
G. Fechner: 1887 left all his papers to Wundt. Wundt shared some of his broader interests
W. Helmholtz: he was his assistant till 1864.
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3. While Wundt was Helmholtz's assistant
1862 Wundt writes his first book:
Contribution to a Theory of Sense Perception
1863 writes Lectures on the Minds of Men and Animals
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4. Wundt's Transitional Period (1865-1871)
Independent physiology tutor and associate faculty at Heidelberg
elected to the Second Chamber of the Baden Parliament
1867 he started to teach a course in physiological psychology.
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5. Academia before Leipzig
1871 offered a regular faculty position at Heidelberg
publishes Physiological Psychology, a most important work.
Professor in Zurich
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6. At Leipzig 1875 assumes a chair in Philosophy
1876 starts teaching experimental psychology.
1879 official beginning of lab
1883 lab incorporated into the U.
1897: lab becomes an a whole building
1881 founds first journal in Psychology
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7. Some of Wundt's important Writings
Wundt's major work was the 20 volumes Völkerpsychologie ( )
The book in which he describes his model of the mind is the 1894 Outlines of Psychology
Extremely prolific writer: more than 50,000 pages
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8. Wundt's influence
Many students: supervised 116 psychology theses, and 70 philosophy theses
American students: James McKeen Cattell, Frank Angell , G. Stanley Hall, Edward Titchener and Lightner Whitmer
One woman student: Anna Berliner
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9. Titchener ( )
Was considered the "official carrier" of Wundt's influence to the US
Translated some of Wundt's work
Much more pragmatic and mechanistic than Wundt. Wundt's voluntarism becomes Titchener's structuralism.
Starts a group of Experimentalists in 1904 (no women allowed)
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10. Some Early Women Psychologists
Christine Ladd Franklin ( ), studied under G.E. Müller in Gottingen
Margaret Floy Washburn (student of Titchener), founder of the Comparative Psychology field
Lucy May Boring ( ), worked w/ her husband, a noted historian of psychology.
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11. THE END
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