PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY OF WILHELM MAXIMILIAN WUNDT
PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY OF WILHELM MAXIMILIAN WUNDT

Summary/Abstract: In the second part of the 19th century, Germany occupies a leading position in research in science, chemistry and physics in particular, but also in psychology. Wilhelm Wundt was a pioneer in experimental psychology, setting up a laboratory where students from all over the world came not only to learn but to experiment as well. In their native countries, the vast majority of these disciples continued the work started with the German psychologist and, in turn, developed such institutes in all developed countries. In Romania, the new ideas propagated by Wundt echoed through the work of scientists such as C. Rădulescu-Motru, Eduard Gruber and Florian Ştefănescu-Goancă. The approach of neurological phenomena from a novel perspective, their study with the help of other sciences such as physiology, anatomy, chemistry, physics and even mathematics and logic made Wilhelm Wundt's work a new branch of psychology. The researcher did not actually bring anything new, but he used what other sciences had gained to study human brain activity: one of the most complex systems. The experiments conducted by Wundt’s followers are various: visual and auditory illusions, attention, music harmony, time to respond external stimuli, etc. But the merit of the German psychologist is that of generating a new way of thinking that propagated throughout the world.

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