AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Margaret Floy Washburn was the first woman to earn a doctoral degree in American psychology (1894) and the second woman, after Mary Whiton Calkins, to serve as APA President. Ironically, Calkins earned her doctorate at Harvard in 1894, but the university trustees refused to grant her the degree.

Detailed explanation-2: -Margaret Floy Washburn was an early 20th century psychologist who conducted extensive research on animal behavior and motor development. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in psychology.

Detailed explanation-3: -At Cornell Washburn worked with an early icon in American psychology, E.B. Titchener. She became Titchener’s first doctoral student and, in 1894, the first female in the United States to be awarded a Ph. D.

Detailed explanation-4: -She established one of the first psychological laboratories in the country at Wellesley College, she published four books and over a hundred papers in psychology and philosophy, and she was ranked 12th in a list of the 50 most eminent psychologists in the United States in 1903.

Detailed explanation-5: -Through her scholarly research, she helped to develop the field as both a science and a profession. Washburn focused much of her research on animal behavior and cognition. She hoped to prove that mental events are just as legitimate and worthy of study as other behavioral events.