Human Growth and Development / Unit 1 HGD 0002 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Wundt Founds a Science
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The idea
Psychology is dated as a science from eighteen seventy-nine, when Wilhelm Wundt founded it as a scientific discipline in Germany.
In practice
One date and one founder, marking where the scientific study of mind begins.
Where people slip
The questions are far older. Ancient Greek thinkers, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, asked about development around four hundred BCE.
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