Word: munsterberg
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...other hand, the young psychologist Hugo Munsterberg, James' assistant, was the one who called Gertrude his ideal student. She participated animatedly in his seminars, as well as in those of George Santayana, who gave her new reading in the English philosophers. Other subjects she took included history, modern languages, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and zoology. "I came out of the nineteenth century," she wrote, "you had to be interested in evolution. I liked thinking.... I liked looking at everyone and talking and listening...
Early in 1892 Dr. Hugo Munsterberg, a noted German psychologist, was appointed professor of Experimental Psychology and Director of the newly-founded Psychological Laboratory. Munsterberg added a considerable amount of German equipment to the laboratory and expanded its activities to include research on animals, making use of a supply of chickens which James kept in the basement of his house on Irving Place...
After Emerson Hall was constructed in 1906, Munsterberg moved his equipment from Dane to the third floor of Emerson where an animal research room and several darkrooms for visual experiments had been provided. This was the first laboratory in this country ever to be designed and built specifically for psychological research...
...existence, the Psychological Laboratory has experienced and endured continual relocation and change. President Pusey's Program for Harvard College may lead to the most far-reaching change of all sometime in the near future. It may not be an easy change, but it should be worth it.Professor HUGO von MUNSTERBERG, at the head of the table, leads his students in a psychological chain-reaction experiment at the Dane Hall laboratory during the fall of 1892. In the background can be seen some of the early equipment with which James and Munsterberg provided the laboratory...