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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.
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.
Gibson began his undergraduate career at Northwestern University, but transferred after his freshman year to Princeton University, where he majored in philosophy.While enrolled at Princeton, Gibson had many influential professors including Edwin B. Holt who advocated new realism, and Herbert S. Langfeld who had taught Gibson's experimental psychology course.
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.
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 ...
Ninety-nine years ago today, on October 16, 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the first family planning clinic in the United States. Sanger is credited with sparking the birth control movement, and ...
Robert Sessions Woodworth (October 17, 1869 – July 4, 1962) was an American psychologist and the creator of the personality test which bears his name.A graduate of Harvard and Columbia, he studied under William James along with other prominent psychologists as Leta Stetter Hollingworth, James Rowland Angell, and Edward Thorndike.