AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Wilhelm Wundt established the first psychological laboratory in Leipzig in 1875; his influence was widespread initially in Germany, but this spread quickly to Britain and the United States, where psychological laboratories were established along the lines of Wundt’s model in Leipzig.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first psychological laboratory was founded by the German doctor and psychologist Wilhelm Wundt. Regarded as the father of psychology, Wundt established the Institute for Experimental Psychology in 1879 at the University of Leipzig in Germany.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Ernst Heinrich Weber and Theodor Gustav Fechner (source: collection of the Institute of Psychology-Wilhelm Wundt, Leipzig University). In 1879, another Leipzig University professor, Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832-1920), founded the world’s first Institute of Psychology.

Detailed explanation-5: -Where did we stand in the establishment of psychology laboratories in the national perspective? The 1st psychology lab in the U.S.A. was established in 1883 at Johns Hopkins University by G. Stanley Hall.