The psychology laboratory at the turn of the 20th century.
The author provides a brief history of the psychology laboratory from 1879 to 1900, discusses its crucial role in the founding of scientific psychology, and describes how it enabled psychology's separation from philosophy. The laboratory model is described as a research and graduate training enterprise that operated with K. Danziger's (1990) concept of a "community of scholars" and was eventually extended to the training of undergraduate students.
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Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station 77483, USA. ltb@psyc.tamu.edu
D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007753:Laboratories / Q000266:history*; D011589:Psychology, Experimental / Q000193:education / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States