PSYCHOLOGYS HISTORY APPROACHES
SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY
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Question
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Who established the first psychology lab at the University of Leipzig, Germany?
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G. Stanley Hall
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William Wundt
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Francis Bacon
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Sigmund Freund
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -According to the “Today in the History of Psychology” website, on this day in 1943 allied bombing over Leipzig, Germany destroyed Wilhelm Wundt’s psychology laboratory.
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