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Washburn's best-known work and, arguably, her most significant contribution to psychology was her influential textbook, The Animal Mind: A Textbook of Comparative Psychology. Originally published in 1908, this book compiled research on experimental work in animal psychology.
1894 – Margaret Floy Washburn was the first woman to be granted a PhD in Psychology after she studied under E. B. Titchener at Cornell University. 1894 – James McKeen Cattell and James Mark Baldwin founded the Psychological Review to compete with Hall's American Journal of Psychology.
A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked him as the 88th most cited psychologist of the 20th century, tied with John Garcia, David Rumelhart, Louis Leon Thurstone, Margaret Floy Washburn, and Robert S. Woodworth. [2]
Edward Bradford Titchener (11 January 1867 – 3 August 1927) was an English psychologist who studied under Wilhelm Wundt for several years. Titchener is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind: structuralism.
Margaret Floy Washburn: 1871–1939 Studied sensation and perception and theorized that one's consciousness was responsible for their own motor activities. She was the first American woman to receive a PhD in psychology. [328] Nicole Weekes: Naomi Weisstein: 1939–2015 [329] Susan Weinschenk: 1953–present Behavioural psychology: Louise ...
Louis Leon Thurstone (May 29, 1887 – September 29, 1955) [1] was an American pioneer in the fields of psychometrics and psychophysics.He conceived the approach to measurement known as the law of comparative judgment, and is well known for his contributions to factor analysis.
Mary Whiton Calkins (/ ˈ k ɔː l k ɪ n z, ˈ k æ l-/; 30 March 1863 – 26 February 1930 [1]) was an American philosopher and psychologist, whose work informed theory and research of memory, dreams and the self.
Ruth Wendell Washburn. Ruth Wendell Washburn (January 19, 1890 – July 1975) was an American educational psychologist. She received an A.B. from Vassar in 1913, an M.A. from Radcliffe in 1922, and a Ph.D. degree from Yale University in 1929. [1] [2] The Ruth Washburn Cooperative Nursery School in Colorado Springs, Colorado is named in her ...