An Important Contribution to the Field of Psychology Resulting from Wilhelm

question 46

Multiple Choice

An important contribution to the field of psychology resulting from Wilhelm Wundt founding his laboratory at the University of Leipzig in 1879 was

• A)the rise of behaviorism's popularity and the decline of both structuralism and functionalism.
• B)recognizing 1879 as "the birthday of cognitive science."
• C)producing PhDs who later established psychology departments at other schools,including some in the United States.
• D)the first demonstration of the forgetting curve and the introduction of the reaction time paradigm.

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