Psychology is the scientific study of human or animal mental functions and behaviors, often making use of the scientific method in laboratory research .
Basic research in psychology includes perception, cognition, attention, emotion, motivation, brain functioning, personality, behavior, and interpersonal relationships.
German physician Wilhelm Wundt is known as the "father of experimental psychology," because he founded the first psychological laboratory, at Leipzig University in 1879.Wundt focused on breaking down mental processes into the most basic components, starting a school of psychology that is called structuralism. Edward Titchener was another major structuralist thinker.
Starting in the 1950s, the experimental techniques set forth by Wundt, James, Ebbinghaus, and others would be reiterated as experimental psychology became increasingly cognitive—concerned with information and its processing—and, eventually, constituted a part of the wider cognitive science.
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