Which of the following Psychologist is not supporter of views about "Psychology as a Science of Soul" ?

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Answer 1

The word ‘Psychology’ is a combination of two words (both Greek):

‘Psych’ which means ‘Soul’ and ‘Logos’ which means 'thought'.
Psychology means: ‘Thought about Soul’. Sometimes some scholars have termed it as the science of soul and consciousness.

Key Points

Plato	He is one of the most dazzling thinkers in the Western philosophical tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging, and influential authors in the history of philosophy. He believed that our senses can deceive us, as in illusions such as the bent appearance of a straight stick that has been partially inserted into a pool of water. Plato also believed that human beings enter the world with an inborn knowledge of reality, a position called nativism.
Aristotle	Aristotle contributed to psychology by being one of the first thinkers to speculate formally on psychological topics, as indicated by the title of his works, including “On Dreams”, “On Sleep and Sleeplessness”. He supported the role of the soul in the development of humans.
Descartes	Descartes was the first Greek philosopher who argued that everything is composed of indivisible, unitary material atoms in constant motion. People are constituted of soul atom and body atom. The nature of the soul was not defined in definite terms. Therefore, his views were opposed by other contemporary philosophers; hence the definition of psychology as a science of soul was given up.

Hint

Wilhelm Wundt, a German psychologist, and doctor, created the world’s first experimental psychology laboratory in 1879 at the University of Leipzig in Germany.

Wundt argued that conscious mental states could be scientifically studied using introspection being against that it is connected to the soul.
He trained psychology students to make observations that were biased by personal interpretation or previous experience and used the results to develop a theory of conscious thought.

Hence, from the above-mentioned points, it is clear that Wundt was not a supporter of views about "Psychology as a Science of Soul".