Correct Answer - Option 4 : Wudnt
The establishment of the psychology laboratory marked starting psychology as a distinct discipline as, before it, psychology was still considered part of philosophy and physiology. Wilhelm Wundt, a German psychologist, and doctor created the world’s first experimental psychology laboratory in 1879 at the University of Leipzig in Germany.
- It is important to note that in 1875, William James formed a psychology laboratory at Harvard University. However, it is still not credited as the world’s first laboratory as it was used for teaching demonstrations rather than experimentation and original research.
Hence, we can conclude that the first laboratory of psychology was established by W. Wundt.
- Galton was the founder of the field of Differential Psychology, which concerns itself with psychological differences between people, rather than on common traits.
- R.B. Cattell (1963) believed that intelligence was primarily an inherited trait.
- Pestalozzi saw teaching as a subject worth studying in its own right and he is therefore known as the Father of Pedagogy (the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept).