The FIRST laboratory devoted exclusively to psychology as an independent field of study opened in:
A)Paris in 1859.
B)Leipzig in 1879.
C)Berlin in 1889.
D)Cornell University in 1909.

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The first laboratory devoted exclusively to psychology as an independent field of study was opened in Leipzig, Germany in 1879 by Wilhelm Wundt. Paris did have a laboratory dedicated to psychology, but it also included other disciplines such as anthropology and biology. Cornell University did establish a psychology laboratory in 1909, but it was not the first. Berlin did not have the first laboratory devoted exclusively to psychology either.

The FIRST Laboratory Devoted Exclusively to Psychology as an Independent