AP PSYCHOLOGY

PSYCHOLOGYS HISTORY APPROACHES

PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is the “father” of psychology?
A
John Locke
B
John B. Watson
C
William Wundt
D
Rene Descartes
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832–1920) is known to posterity as the “father of experimental psychology” and the founder of the first psychology laboratory (Boring 1950: 317, 322, 344–5), whence he exerted enormous influence on the development of psychology as a discipline, especially in the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wilhelm Wundt is the man most commonly identified as the father of psychology.

Detailed explanation-3: -Showed that introspection could be used to study mental states in replicable laboratory experiments.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: William Wundt is considered the father of psychology, he was a German psychologist who established the initial psychological laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in the year 1879. He explained psychology to be a field of science but would differ from other branches of science i.e, Biology and philosophy.

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