Psychology is the relatively young science (1800). But throughout history, people have noticed a problem of psychology. Like the Greek philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle. After that, St Austin (354-430) as an important figure in modern psychology because of its focus on introspection and curiosity about the psychology. Descartes (1596 – 1650) proposed the theory that animals are machines that are to what other machines can be studied. He also introduced the concept of work is a reflection. Many other famous philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries – Leibnitz, Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Kant – in the field of psychology help. At that time took the form of psychology is not a discourse of science.
Psychology as a science
Although in the study of people in the same period in the presence of mind to the study of nature thought experiment, but to understand the complexity and dynamism of the people, then the science of psychology created since the late 1800s when Wilhelm Wundt founded both the psychology laboratory for the first time in the world.
In 1879 Wilhelm Wundt founded the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig, Germany. With the creation of this laboratory, the scientific method to human has been found to be understood, which is not sufficient, however, with the creation of this laboratory, has become the requirements with which a science of psychology, so that the basis of Wundt’s laboratory is as the founding date of the recognized psychology as a science
Psychology as an independent science
End of the 19th
Enter the 20th Century, the psychology in the school of thought developed. If Wundt laid the foundation for psychology with the aim of structuralism, the following series of rapids, the following emerges.
- Functionalism
- Behaviorism
- Psycho-Analysis
- Gestalt psychology
- Humanistic psychology
By understanding the history of psychology is to be expected that a more comprehensive understanding of what psychology arising.