William James: The Later Years William James introduced experimental psychology to America. He began giving laboratory demonstrations to students at least as early as Wundt, and he and his students started performing laboratory experiments about the same time as Wundt and his students. Ironically, while James made much of the value of experimentation, he himself found it boring. He usually spent no more than two hours a day in the laboratory. Yet he believed in …showed first 75 words of 1201 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1201 total…of educational psychology. The other in 1909, James, as an executive committee member of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, was largely responsible for getting the Rockefeller Foundation and similar groups to allocate millions of dollars to the mental hygiene movement, the development of mental hospitals, and the training of mental health professionals. William James was know as one of America’s most respected pschologist. Bibliography 1.) “William James.” Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia. 1998. 2.) “William James.” World Book Encyclopedia. 1995. 3.)