<P> The first use of the term `` psychology '' is often attributed to the German scholastic philosopher Rudolf Göckel ( 1547 -- 1628 ) , often known under the Latin form Rodolphus Goclenius ) , who published the Psychologia hoc est : de hominis perfectione , animo et imprimis ortu hujus ... in Marburg in 1590 . However , the term seems to have been used more than six decades earlier by the Croatian humanist Marko Marulić ( 1450 -- 1524 ) in the title of his Latin treatise , Psichiologia de ratione animae humanae . Although the treatise itself has not been preserved , its title appears in a list of Marulic 's works compiled by his younger contemporary , Franjo Bozicevic - Natalis in his `` Vita Marci Maruli Spalatensis '' ( Krstić , 1964 ) . </P>
<P> The first use of the term `` psychology '' is often attributed to the German scholastic philosopher Rudolf Göckel ( 1547 -- 1628 ) , often known under the Latin form Rodolphus Goclenius ) , who published the Psychologia hoc est : de hominis perfectione , animo et imprimis ortu hujus ... in Marburg in 1590 . However , the term seems to have been used more than six decades earlier by the Croatian humanist Marko Marulić ( 1450 -- 1524 ) in the title of his Latin treatise , Psichiologia de ratione animae humanae . Although the treatise itself has not been preserved , its title appears in a list of Marulic 's works compiled by his younger contemporary , Franjo Bozicevic - Natalis in his `` Vita Marci Maruli Spalatensis '' ( Krstić , 1964 ) . </P>
who used the word psychology for the first time
who used the word psychology for the first time
German scholastic philosopher Rudolf Göckel
German scholastic philosopher Rudolf Göckel