ABSTRACT
In the Autumn of 1887 George Thomas White Patrick came to the University of Iowa as head of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology, then uniquely named the Department of Mental and Moral Science and Didactics. The two departments remained unified, although with a more traditional title, until 1927. Patrick immediately began the development of the University of Iowa Psychology Laboratories—the ninth such laboratory to be founded in the United States (Hilgard, 1987). The initial equipment was imported from Wundt’s laboratory in Leipzig and served as the basis for introducing experiments into the elementary psychology course.
