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• Wundt was heavily involved in the emergence of psychology as a science
• often accepted as the first psychologist
• attemped to separate psychological ideas from early philosophical ideas
• created the first lab for investigating human behaviour in Leipzig University, Germany.
• he proposed that human behaviour should be tested experimentally and he believed that there was a way to do this empirically.
• his aim was to investigate the nature of human consciousness

  he believed that the best way to do this was by breaking behaviours such as sensation and perception into their individual elements, this approach later became known as structuralism.
• what is structuralism


  studying the human mind by breaking down behaviours such as perception and sensation