The big idea
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From philosophy to the lab
Psychology grew out of big questions about the mind into an experimental science.
Psychology · Lesson 2
The History of Psychology
beginner⏱ 13 min · 7 cards
Schools of thought
Ways of seeing the mind
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A founding moment
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When did it become a science?
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1879
Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychology laboratory — marking psychology as an experimental science.
Nuance
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Maester Note
Each school corrected the last — the field learns by disagreeing well.
Recap
Key takeaways
- ✓Psychology's questions are ancient; its experimental method is about 150 years old.
- ✓Wundt's 1879 laboratory marks the methodological turn.
- ✓Structuralism, functionalism, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanism, and cognitivism each contributed something durable.
- ✓Schools are better judged by which claims survived than by whether they were right.
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