History Of Psychology

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to live with an aunt. Here he improved academically and graduated at age 19. He decided to embark on a career in medicine and indeed excelled in this area. His achievements lead him into the field of physiology and he decided to proceed into the academic side of this subject by becoming a lecturer.
As a lecturer at Heidelberg Wundt earned a very low salary so he began to teach courses privately. His first course in experimental physiology he taught in his own home and attracted only four students. Wundt wished to further his career by both private teaching and private studies. His studies at this time were connected with earlier work in the fields of physiology and astronomy however these studies also carried implications for a future science of psychology. It was in these scientific experiments that Wundt developed his ideas for a hybrid of philosophy and physiology, which would eventually become psychology.
He formulated two branches of psychology. The branch he is most ...

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and convinced many that a new scientific psychology was truly on the horizon (Fancher, 1996, page155). In this way Wundt began to become an extremely influential man. He had defined this new science and succeeded in making it an independent subject. He had written the first widely read articles on this new area and he had begun to devise explicit rules for his experimental method in psychology.
As his ideas grew so did his influence and this was apparent in 1874 when he produced his book Principles of Physiological Psychology. As well as clarifying his ideas and this new area it was also heralded as the first genuine textbook for Psychology.
In 1875 he accepted a full professorship ...

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