Sensation and perception in the history of experimental psychology

Historical Significance: Edwin G. Boring (1886-1968) was an experimental psychologist who later became one of the first historians of psychology. He was director of the psychological laboratory at Harvard University, from 1924 to 1949, where his goal became to free psychology from its status as a subsection of the Department of Philosophy and become an experimental discipline. Boring was successful and established an independent Department of Psychology in 1934. His emphasized the use of the experimental method to investigate psychological questions rather than the tools of philosophy. He was president of the American Psychological Association in 1928. This book is a classic text long used by students of psychology