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Would psychology have been better off if someone other than Wundt had started the first laboratories and granted the first degrees?

Introduction

The beginning of experimental psychology refers to 1879, when Wundt opened the first experimental psychology laboratory in Leipzig. This laboratory began a systematic study of sensation, perception, reaction rates, associations and feelings. However, by using objective methods, Wundt suited his interpretation with idealist positions.

In 1879, Wundt's first world's experimental psychology laboratory was in Leipzig. Wundt was the founder of psychology as a formal academic discipline. His work “Foundations of Physiological Psychology”, released in 1874, was the beginning of psychology as an independent science. Over the years of research and teaching, Wundt 17,000 students attended his lectures. He founded the first journal in psychology, opened the Institute of Experimental Psychology which was founded the science school. He studied and worked with well-known scientists of the future i.e. Kraepelin, Münsterberg, Külpe, Meysman, Marbach, Lipps, Kruger (Germany), Titchener (England), Angell, G. Hall, Whitmer (USA), Bekhterev, Czyz, Lange (Russia). Many of these are considered as the founders of clinical psychology.

Discussion

Wundt believed that psychology is the science of direct experience, i.e., comprehending the phenomena of consciousness through introspection. He was interested in the structure of consciousness, and therefore this area is called structuralism and Wundt's theory. This theory was considered as the elements of consciousness.

Wolfe (pp.83) Wundt initially focused on the study of consciousness of the subject, defining psychology as the science of “direct experience.” He called it the physiological psychology. Wundt also used the two other new sections of knowledge which are psychophysics and direction. These can be determined through the reaction of the subject to the requirements incentives.

Tomasello (pp.15) Wundt has shown that on the basis of experiments in which the subject is a person, one can study the mental processes, until this time is inaccessible to experimental investigation. Thus, Wundt's laboratory was the first to examine experimentally the threshold of sensation, reactions towards different stimuli, including speech. Wundt believed that the experimental methods are suitable only for the study of elementary mental processes, whereas access to higher forms of mental life is ensured only through the study of myths, beliefs, rituals, and language. Psychology thus serves as the science of spirit, and the spirit of the people.

Wundt's views the relationship of psychology and linguistics was originally scheduled as early as the basis of physiological psychology. Wundt considers in detail the evolution of the human form of expression from physiological through sign language (in the study of which Wundt made a significant contribution) to the audio language.

According to Bringmann (pp.287) he believed that consciousness (which he identified with the psyche, denying the existence of unconscious mental processes) consists of individual elements, which are connected by the laws of association, form submission, reflect objective reality. Sensations (i.e., the elements of consciousness) inherent qualities such as modality (e.g. visual sensations are different from hearing) and intensity. The main elements of consciousness are also feelings (emotional ...