... history of psychology which has greatly influenced each school within modern psychology today. Psychology is about one hundred years old and started off as a branch of philosophy, influenced by the reductionists such as Rene Descarte and then the empiricists such as John Locke, David Hume and Berkeley of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Prior to the 1870s there were no psychological research laboratories however it was two professors that set up the first two psychological laboratories to which the development of academic psychology owes greatly. William Wundt (1832-1920) created the first laboratory in 1879 in Leipzig in Germany. He was a physiologist by training but later became a professor of "scientific philosophy". Wundt followed the "structuralism" perspective and attempted to analyse consciousness into elementary sensations and feelings. To do so he used introspection continuously as a research method and believed it was a highly disciplined technique for analyzing conscious experience. ...

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