AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mary Whiton Calkins was the 14th President of APA and the first woman to serve in that office.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mary Whiton Calkins was a late 19th and early 20th century psychologist and philosopher who introduced the field of self psychology. She was the first woman to become president of the American Psychological Association.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -In 1891 she established at Wellesley one of the earliest laboratories for experimental psychology in the country and the first in a women’s college. Her own work in the field dealt primarily with such topics as space and time consciousness, emotion, association, colour theory, and dreams.