Practice question · Multiple choice
Psychology dates its founding to Wundt opening a laboratory in 1879, not to a book or a theory. Why does the room matter more than the idea?
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- People had theorised about the mind for millennia. Ask what was genuinely new in 1879.
- What can a laboratory settle that an argument cannot?
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C. Because the lab is the commitment to measurement
Why
The mind had been discussed for two thousand years; what changed was submitting the questions to apparatus and a stopwatch. That is also the seed of structuralism's failure, the one method it chose, trained introspection, turned out to be the one that could not settle its own disputes.
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