On Jan 11, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Mike Palij <[email protected]> wrote: > She also mentions William James and says: > > |...he did establish one of the first psychological laboratories > |in the United States. > > This statement is potentially misleading in several ways: > (1) Billy J was not a researcher in sense that Wundt or Stanley > Hall was, so it really is correct to imply he used a lab for > research instead of demonstration (which is what is was; > Chris Green or others can correct me on this if I am wrong).
Yes, this is essentially correct. James got his laboratory training *after* he became a Harvard lecturer, in the physiology lab of his friend, Henry Pickering Bowditch (who had gotten his training with Carl Ludwig — inventor of the kymograph — in Leipzig). James then set up a little demonstration lab in the mid-1870s, but it was not for research but just to show students well-established phenomena. By the early 1890s, Harvard had fallen far behind others schools in the size and sophistication of its lab. That’s when James recruited Hugo Münsterberg from Freiburg to expand and professionalize the Harvard facilities. Only then did Harvard have a research laboratory to compete with those at Clark, Columbia, and Cornell. > (2) [G.] Stanley Hall's establishment of a lab in academic psychology > at Johns Hopkins would have been a better example True. However, although Hopkins had the first psychological "research lab" in the US, it was short-lived because Hall left Hopkins in 1888 to take up the presidency of the newly founded Clark U. The Hopkins lab would not re-open until J. Mark Baldwin arrived in 1903 (only to be “resigned" in 1909). Best, Chris ….. Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 43.773895°, -79.503670° [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo ………………………………... --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=47833 or send a blank email to leave-47833-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
