... , did it become acknowledged and recorded. There are several significant figures who are responsible for the history of the study of psychology. Psychology became recognized as a formal academic discipline when William Wundt founded a laboratory for psychological study in Germany in 1879. Wundt is often called the "father of psychology" for this reason. His laboratory studies were in concepts such as sensory ... its primary originator, Titchener, in the early twentieth century. Functionalism, a school of thought concerned with how humans and animals use mental processes to adapt to their...

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