Wundt

1. "The work I here present to the public is an attempt to mark out a new domain of science" -Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt set out deliberately to found a new science. Wundt ardently promoted systematic experimentation. It was while he was studying physiology that he began to depict the study of psychology as an independent experimental scientific discipline. He first outlined his ideas in a book named Contributions to the Theory of Sensory Perception. In this book he described experiments he was conducting in a makeshift laboratory made in his home. It was in this book when he first coined the term "experimental psychology". This is considered the literary birth of a new science.
Wundt chose the title for his new science to be physiological psychology. At
Back in the day the mind was not looked at in the way we view it today. Helmholtz produced the first quantative measure of the mind. Helholtz made contributions by studying neural impulses, vision, and audition. Helmholtz also focused on the benefits of scientific research.
As you can see the three antecedents to the "new" psychology are philosophy, physiology, and the mind. These three things taken greatly into consideration by Wundt, and he combined these ideas to form the "new" psychology.
Fechner is not considered the founder of this new science. You could look at him as more of a originator. Fechner had no interests in creating a new science. His goal was to understand the relationship between the mental and material worlds. Fechner wanted to create a unified conception of mind and body that had scientific basis. Wundt gets the credit because his goal was to create this new science. He set out to spread the knowledge in universities and laboratories. This is why we consider Wundt to have been the founder of this "new" psychology and not the