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William James

**1842-1910 ** "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

Cognitive Perspective:
James believed doing something over and over again repetitively would "stream on the relationships between experience and behavior, and described."

Education:
William James was put in the best possible schools and first was educated by private schools and tutors in New York. Then once his family moved to Paris he attended school at Geneva Academy. James was always fascinated by painting so he went to Newport to fulfill his dream. After a year of being taught art by William Morris Hunt he left his dream of being an artist to attend Harvard and study chemistry. William was going to serve in the Civil War but couldn't because of health conditions he had. Williams family wasn't as prosperous so he enrolled in Harvard's medical school, and did not enjoy it, but received his M.D. degree.

Major Accomplishments in Psychology:

 * 1) After graduation medical school William was offered a shot at being an instructor of undergrad course of comparative physiology, and taught at Harvard for 35 years.
 * 2) Taught psychology and had the first experimental psychology laboratories in the United States.
 * 3) Wrote the first modern book called the "Principles of Psychology".

Other Contributions:

 * 1) Pragmatism is one of the things William James taught us and it meant the truth of an idea can not be proved, but instead we look at things the way we want to for money or for your own selfish reasons.
 * 2) William James also taught us that functionalism was focusing on the whole event of a situation, based on ones surroundings and behavior.

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