Wundt, Wilhelm

Wilhelm Wundt is considered the father of modern (or scientific) psychology. He was the first to establish a psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig in 1879. He studied mental processes via introspection, a method he developed that involves recording the perceptions, thoughts, and feelings of research participants in response to various visual stimuli. One of the colleagues he trained was E. B. Titchener, who later improved upon Wundt's research using Structuralism.