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The scientific background of psychology is a very complex topic. Normally it is said that Wilhelm Wundt set up the first research lab dedicated specifically to experimental psychology in Leipzig, Germany in 1879. Wundt's approach to psychology, however, was superseded, to a large extent, by behaviorism (the assertion that psychology is the study of observable behavior alone, rather than of "the mind") in the 1920s in the US. With the advent of computers in the 1960s, many psychologists began to turn to modeling mental processes with computer programs. Even then, all of these very general claims are crude, very incomplete The scientific background of psychology is a very complex topic. Normally it is said that Wilhelm Wundt set up the first research lab dedicated specifically to experimental psychology in Leipzig, Germany in 1879. Wundt's approach to psychology, however, was superseded, to a large extent, by behaviorism (the assertion that psychology is the study of observable behavior alone, rather than of "the mind") in the 1920s in the US. With the advent of computers in the 1960s, many psychologists began to turn to modeling mental processes with computer programs. Even then, all of these very general claims are crude, very incomplete

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There really is none. A comprehensive review of psychology invariably includes philosophy, religion, the sciences and the arts. Most psychology today revolves around clinical pathologies, personality disorders, social milieu, behaviorism and even spiritualism. And each has its leading proponents. A good place to start for us westerners would be the Greek philosophers.

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