This perspective stands in contrast to the positivist reductionist orientation of the scientific psychology.
His medical studies were pioneering works in scientific psychology.
He was one of the founders of scientific psychology in France.
Wundt believed that scientific psychology should focus on analyzing consciousness, a person's subjective experience of the world and mind.
For the first time, with the advent of psychoanalysis, it was no longer necessary that a scientific psychology be fundamentally a neuropsychology.
Upon arrival he wasted no time in pressing that scientific psychology and education be added to the curriculum.
Wilhelm Wundt in history: The making of a scientific psychology.
Freud's influence has been enormous, though more as cultural icon than a force in scientific psychology.
Developmental psychologists draw on the full range of theorists in scientific psychology to inform their research.
The scope of scientific psychology and its practice have expanded enormously from its early beginnings in the 19th century to today.