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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Another major contribution from Washburn was her attempt to link the structuralist and behaviorist traditions. Washburn developed her motor theory, which stated that thought or consciousness could be seen in bodily movements. She believed that consciousness is the result of sensation and motion.

Detailed explanation-3: -Through persistence, Washburn convinced Columbia University to allow her to audit classes taught by noted psychologist, James McKeen Cattell.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1894, Margaret Floy Washburn was the first woman awarded the doctoral degree in psychology. She wrote The Animal Mind: A Textbook of Comparative Psychology, and it was the standard in the field for over 20 years.