Wilhelm Wundt

Wilhelm Wundt was the creator of the first laboratory of science psychology in 1879, and sense that moment the shows up the psychology like a science, because before it was just a specialty of the philosophy. Wundt was a professor of medicine and human physiology in the germane University o Leipzig, and was interested in resolve problems physiologic and also problems philosophic, that form the basic the psychology.

Philosopher, physiologist and psychologist, was the founder of structuralism. In this laboratory studies the sensations, a very basic level like the heat and cold. Wrote the book “Foundations of Physiological Psychology”, one of the most cited books in psychology.

 For Wundt, there are two essential aspects of behavior: the objective (what we see and feel) and subjective (how we perceive what we perceive). Wundt's conception of psychology was always controversial.

What he has done?

All the Wundt's publications at over 490 works, which one of are on average 110 pages long. Wundt published in 68 years seven works a year, making him probably the most prolific scientist of all time

Wundt wrote 53,735 pages in total. This means "writing for 100 years without stopping with 500 pages per year." He write about human and animal psychology, the language of gestures, etc.

His book more important was “Foundations of Physiological Psychology”

Why I believe that is so important?

I think that is such a important person because he was the creator of the first laboratory for studies of psychology and his book “Principles of Physiological Psychology”, are considered fundamentally important texts in the field of psychology.

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