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PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When was the birth of psychology as we know it in a small room of Germany’s University of Leipzig?
A
March 1403
B
July 1746
C
July 1820
D
December 1879
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1879, at the University of Leipzig, Wundt opened the first laboratory ever to be exclusively devoted to psychological studies, and this event marked the official birth of psychology as an independent field of study.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wilhelm Wundt opened the Institute for Experimental Psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany in 1879. This was the first laboratory dedicated to psychology, and its opening is usually thought of as the beginning of modern psychology. Indeed, Wundt is often regarded as the father of psychology.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920), who founded scientific psychology in Germany in 1879, the year he set up his experimental laboratory at the University of Leipzig, characterized the new discipline as physiological psychology.

Detailed explanation-4: -3.3 Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) In 1879, Wundt founded the first psychological laboratory of the world in Leipzig, Germany, where he mainly studied sensations and feelings by employing experimental methods.

Detailed explanation-5: -Psychology as a field of experimental study began in 1854 in Leipzig, Germany when Gustav Fechner created the first theory of how judgments about sensory experiences are made and how to experiment on them.

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