AP PSYCHOLOGY

PSYCHOLOGYS HISTORY APPROACHES

PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was denied the claim to being psychology’s first female psychology Ph.D. when the jerks at Harvard wouldn’t let her into their school of psychology?
A
Rene Descartes
B
Mary Whiton Calkins
C
Rosalie Rayner
D
Margaret Floy Washburn
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -1894-Margaret Floy Washburn is the first woman to receive a Ph. D. degree in psychology (Cornell University).-Harvard University denies Mary Whiton Calkins admission to doctoral candidacy because of her gender, despite Hugo Münsterberg’s claim that she was the best student he had ever had there.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The first use of the term psychology is often attributed to the “Yucologia hoc est de hominis perfectione, anima, ortu", written by the German scholastic philosopher Rudolf Goeckel (1547-1628), who often goes by the Latinized Rudolph Goclenius, and published in Marburg in 1590.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832–1920) is known to posterity as the “father of experimental psychology” and the founder of the first psychology laboratory (Boring 1950: 317, 322, 344–5), whence he exerted enormous influence on the development of psychology as a discipline, especially in the United States.

Detailed explanation-5: -Second, James was an American. He was the first person to bring psychology to the United States through his studies and work at Harvard University in the 20th century. Who is credited with founding psychology? The answer would be William James along with Wilhelm Wundt.

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