Question

1) Why do you think there was protests against Wundtian psychology?

2) What ideas of Wundt where used as a source of inspiration on new systems of psychology and viewpoints?

Answer 1

1. During Wundtian’s later year's different school of psychology emerged that which protested against the characteristics of his system. These systems all shared the common view that experimental psychology should not be limited to immediate experience components but they should try to explore the higher mental processes. The other reason for the conflict was the too much of conflicting about conscious experiences made it difficult for psychologists to agree on the basic elements of conscious experience.

cognitive and evolutionary psychology.

2.Since Wundt’s contribution to the development of psychology was his experimental methods i.e. research in carefully controlled conditions, i.e. This encouraged the behaviorists to be more scientific by following the same experimental approach.