AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1875 James taught one of the university’s first courses in psychology, “The Relations between Physiology and Psychology, ” for which he established the first experimental psychology demonstration laboratory. James oversaw Harvard’s first doctorate in psychology, earned by G. Stanley Hall in 1878.

Detailed explanation-2: -William James was a psychologist and philosopher who had a major influence on the development of psychology in the United States. Among his many accomplishments, he was the first to teach a psychology course in the U.S. and is often referred to as the father of American psychology.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832–1920) is known to posterity as the “father of experimental psychology” and the founder of the first psychology laboratory (Boring 1950: 317, 322, 344–5), whence he exerted enormous influence on the development of psychology as a discipline, especially in the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first doctoral degree including “psychology” in its title (i.e., philosophy and psychology), was awarded to G. Stanley Hall in 1878. By 1892, Hugo Munsterberg had been appointed professor of experimental psychology and director of the psychological laboratory.

Detailed explanation-5: -Figure 3. William James, shown here in a self-portrait, was the first American psychologist.