Much of Wundt's work was shelved around the mid-20th century in the United States due to a lack of satisfactory translations, misrepresentations by several students, and the problems of behaviorists with the structuralist program. Titchener was one of Wundt's most vocal supporters in the United States. He is also responsible for various translations and mistranslations of Wundt's work that support his views. He called this approach "structuralism" and claimed that it was completely in line with Wundt's position. Titchener, who also focused on the internal structures of the mind, was rejected by behaviorists who would follow the ideas of B.F. Skinner, which were part of the psychological studies dominated by the latter in the mid-1900s. In the following decades, his positions and techniques were reconsidered and reevaluated by leading psychologists. Most modern psychologists believed that the creation of the psychology laboratory in 1879 established psychology as a separate field of study with its own methods and questions. Wilhelm Wundt's support of the method of experimental psychology also laid the foundation for future behaviorism, and many of his experimental methods are still used today in modern psychology. Some psychologists might even disagree that 1879 was not the year psychology began as an independent discipline. Psychologists might say that psychology began in the times of the ancient Greeks such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. These philosophers examined various psychological aspects such as the inner man, and focused on it as separate from philosophy. The work of Socrates (470-399 BC) was based primarily on his irritation with the sophists and their way of teaching logic as a means of achieving sel......middle of paper......ears first that Wundt founded his psychology laboratory, William James founded his own psychology laboratory at Harvard University. James has not been credited as the founder of psychology as an independent discipline or as a science because his laboratory was used to teach demonstrations to students rather than for the purpose of experimentation and original research.2 In conclusion, psychologists have many reasons to believe that in 1879 was the year in which psychology established itself as an independent discipline. Although Greek psychologists such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were the first to actually study the inner man, Wundt was the psychologist who actually began to undertake actual experiments as a practice. Although both played a crucial role in the attempt to establish psychology as an independent discipline, it can be said that 1879 was “the official year”".