Psychology is said to have begun when __________.
A) medicine was seen to be ineffective in treating neurosis
B) Wilhelm Wundt started the first psychological laboratory
C) Sigmund Freud opened his private practice in Vienna
D) it was discovered in the early 1900s that many illnesses have no medical basis

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Wilhelm Wundt is considered the father of psychology because he established the first psychological laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in 1879. This marked the beginning of psychology as a scientific discipline separate from philosophy and medicine.

Psychology Is Said to Have Begun When __________