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Essay: New Psychology

Essay: New Psychology

Q "How "New Psychology" is different from the philosophical approach. Wundt's opinions as to how psychology should be studied." Even so, you have gone to Germany to study with Wilhelm Wundt and find out what this "New Psychology" is all about. Write an essay aimed at those who would have been studying psychology in the more traditional philosophical approach during this time. Again, you are to write this essay as if you lived during that time.

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In contrast to observation and reasoning, new psychology differs from philosophical methods in that it relies on scientific procedures to research and develop conclusions about the underlying processes of the mind. Wundt was adamant that psychology had an experimental science for understanding immediate awareness, but that it was useless for understanding deeper mental processes.