Book: The Story of Psychology Information: Wilhelm Wundt created the first psych

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Book: The Story of Psychology

Information: Wilhelm Wundt created the first psychology laboratory. This was very exciting since it brought the advent of scientific experimentation within psychology. For this reason, psychology was considered to have been born when Wundt conducted his first experiment in 1879. But there were others at the time who believed that psychology could not be studied in a lab. Thus began the argument that continues to this day between the more physiological psychological sciences and the more social/introspective/mental processes. Essentially one side of the argument says that the more physiological, the more important the research, and the other side values less readily observable exploration into mental processes.

(NEED) Discussion Response: Engage in this argument. Use scientific evidence to argue for or against the concept that the more physiological the evidence, the more valuable. Also feel free to discuss any other aspects of Wundt, his life, and his work that intrigued you from the chapter!

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Use scientific evidence to argue for or against the concept that the more physiological the evidence, the more valuable.

Yes, I believe that physiological evidence is required to make an experiment valuable. This is because, unless there is concrete evidence, the thought would just be an idea of the experimenter and there would be nothing concrete to support it. An experiment without physiological evidences would just be a hypothesis. For example, in milgram’s experiment the hypothesis was regarding obedience that took place in the Nazi holocaust. What he had formulated was a hypothesis, that people could be just following orders under authority. If the experiment would not have been carried out, there would be no physiological evidence of obedience under authority.

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