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5 unusual facts about Wilhelm Wundt


Faculty psychology

In his Principles of Physiological Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt insisted that faculties were nothing but descriptive class-concepts, meant to denote classes of mental events which could be discerned in introspection, but which never actually appeared in isolation.

Luis Simarro Lacabra

As a psychiatrist, Simarro was heavily influenced by developments in Germany, particularly Emil Kraepelin's classification and treatment of the insane, Wilhelm Wundt's theory of experimental psychology and Theodor Ziehen's critical analysis of Wundt's approach to psychology.

Philosophische Studien

Philosophische Studien (Philosophical Studies) was the first journal of experimental psychology, founded by Wilhelm Wundt in 1883.

Principles of Psychology

In Chapter 7, James suggests that Weber, Fechner, Vierordt, and Wundt might be the greatest experimental psychophysiologists of the 19th century.

Russian Psychological Society

Wilhelm Wundt Germany. Physician, physiologist, psychologist, teacher



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