The German physiologist and psychologist, Wilhelm Max Wundt, is generally known as the founder of Exper

... The German physiologist and psychologist, Wilhelm Max Wundt, is generally known as the founder of Exper v imental Psychology. His major contributions to Psychology can be divided into three parts : (1) He played a central role in establishing psychology as an independent science. (2) He developed the methods to investigate psychological phenomena. (3) He proposed the theoretical notions which served as points of reference for subsequent development in psychology. His conception of psychology was directly influenced by the philosophical writings of Rene Descartes and John Herbart and the experimental efforts of Ernst Weber and Gustav Fechner. These influences encouraged him to establish psychology as an independent subject of science. Wundt employed three methods to investigate psychological phenomena : (1) Introspection (2) Experimentation (3) Historical Analysis. Throughout his adult life, he restlessly campaigned in order to have psychology recognized as an independent discipline with its own subject matter. He was the first person in the history of psychology to be properly

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