William james (1842— 19 10) is the father of American psychology. The first American philosopher and psychologist, educator, advocate of pragmatism, one of the founders of American functionalist psychology school, and one of the earliest experimental psychologists in the United States. 1875, the first psychology laboratory in America was established. /kloc-0 was elected president of the American Psychological Association in 1904, and/kloc-0 was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1906. In 2006, James was named as one of the 100 people who influenced the United States by the authoritative American periodical Atlantic Monthly (No.62).