Wundt

American  

[voont] / vʊnt /

noun

1. Wilhelm Max 1832–1920, German physiologist and psychologist.

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Wundt British  

/ vʊnt /

noun

1. Wilhelm Max (ˈvɪlhɛlm maks). 1832–1920, German experimental psychologist

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Other Word Forms

• Wundtian
  adjective

Example Sentences

But even with that narrowed scope, we still come up against the same problem: can we really call Wundt the point of origin?

From Scientific American • Jul. 31, 2012

Wundt, he wrote, was going about it all wrong—much as the person who analyzes the content of bricks in order to understand the nature of a house.

From Scientific American • Jul. 31, 2012

There’s Gustav Fechner, often credited with performing the first experiments that can be identified as psychological—and that, as early as 1839, when Wundt was only seven years old.

From Scientific American • Jul. 31, 2012

The knowledge of human psychology was thrown into reverse and the animals were credited with consciousness, introspective, free will, after the German school led by Wilhelm Max Wundt.

From Time Magazine Archive

For matter operating mentally, as for matter operating corporeally, there are no specific energies; it is, as Wundt expresses it, functionally indifferent.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.