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Psychology\'s intellectual parents are the disciplines of
Answer: philosophy and physiology
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The person responsible for establishing psychology as an independent discipline with its own subject matter is
Answer: Wilhelm Wundt
3.
According to historians, the \"birth\" of psychology occurred in
Answer: 1879 in Germany
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According to your textbook author, one factor that contributed to both the birth of psychology in Germany and the rapid growth of psychology in the United States toward the end of the 19th century is that
Answer: resources were available for expansion and universities climates were open to the development of new disciplines.
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The person who established America\'s first psychological research laboratory and who launched America\'s first psychology journal was
Answer: G. Stanley Hal
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What is psychology?• To adequately understand what psychology is (and how to use it), we
first need to understand why it came to be studied in the first place
• That means we have to learn a bit about the history of psychology
• Psyche (soul) + logos (to study)
• Psychology as a science only really became popular during the 1800s
,The history of psychology
• People have been thinking about “the mind” since the dawn of
mankind.
• But what is the mind?
• What is the connection between the mind and the body?
,What is the mind?
• Before the 1800’s lots of people speculated about the mind, but one
person’s guess was as good as another’s
, The Birth of Psychology
• Wilhelm Wundt proposed that we should study the mind
independently of philosophy and physiology
• Wundt also proposed that this new field of study (psychology) should
be rooted in science
• This new science would concern itself with the study of conscious
and immediate experience
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