PSYC 4008 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: American Psychologist, Wilhelm Wundt, Mary Whiton Calkins
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Faculty of memory is particularly strong in human beings. American psyc needed people like william james to change it to more scientific. William james: most famous early american psychologist, we still have his psyc, background. So father was a millionaire and added to his own wealth ( father 2nd richest man in america at the time of his birth) 5 kids: henry and william james, henry was a short story writer in gothic style, they were very close, william"s father was very eccentric. Lots of money: william- suicidal, emotional disturbance, henry felt the same. But said that his children should be well educated and cosmopolitan. Got them the best schools, tutors, moved the family to europe, put the kids in school and would worry they were becoming too french, german, etc: henry sr. wanted his children to be proud to be americans, henry. William thought he was european, british accent. Henry became someone william didn"t want to be.
