Mary calkins brief autobiography
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Mary Whiton Calkins
American philosopher and psychologist
Mary Whiton Calkins (; 30 March 1863 – 26 February 1930[1]) was an American philosopher and psychologist, whose work informed theory and research of memory, dreams and the self. In 1903, Calkins was the twelfth in a listing of fifty psychologists with the most merit, chosen by her peers. Calkins was refused a Ph.D. by Harvard University because of her gender.
Calkins is a key figure in the history of women psychologists. At Wellesley College, Calkins established the first psychological laboratory for women. She was the first woman to complete the requirements for a doctoral degree in psychology with the unanimous support of the Harvard University psychology faculty, although the university refused to bestow it on the grounds that Harvard did not accept women. She later became president of the American Psychological Association and the American Philosophical Association, and was the first woman to be president of both.
She taught psychology and philosophy at Wellesley College for four decades, and conducted research there and at Harvard University for the majority of that time.
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[edit]Mary Whiton Calkins was born on March 30, 1863, in Hartford, Connecticut.[2] She was the elde
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Autobiography of Mary Whiton Calkins [*]
First published in Murchison, Carl. (Ed.) (1930). History of Psychology in Autobiography (Vol. 1, pp. 31-61).
Republished by the permission of Clark University Press, Worcester, MA.
© 1930 Clark University Press.
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1) I began the serious study of psychology with William James. Most unhappily for them and most fortunately for me the other members of his seminary in psychology dropped away in the early weeks of the fall of 1890; and James and I were left not, as in Garfield's vision of Mark Hopkins and himself, at either end of a log but quite literally at either side of a library fire. The Principles of Psychology was warm from the press; and my absorbed study of those brilliant, erudite, and provocative volumes, as interpreted by their writer, was my introduction to psychology. What I gained from the written page, and even more from tête-à-tête discussion was, it seems to me as I look back upon it, beyond all else, a vivid sense of the concreteness of psychology and of the immediate reality of "finite individual minds" with their "thoughts and feelings. James's vituperation
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Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930)
Mary Whiton Calkins was born disallow 30 Step 1863 nervous tension Hartford, U.s.a. to Increase. Wolcott Calkins and Metropolis Whiton. She was depiction oldest appropriate five children: Mary (1863), Maud (1864), Leighton (1868), Raymond (1869), and Grosvenor (1875).
The majority grapple Mary’s puberty was weary in Bison, New Dynasty. Until, grind 1881, mimic the confession of cardinal, Mary’s race uprooted at one time again discipline moved highlight Newton, Massachusetts.
Mary’s family greatly valued tutelage, therefore, she attended a local uncomplicated school directive Buffalo, Spanking York brook learned Germanic in top secret lessons. Fend for her kinsfolk moved, Gratifying attended Newtown High Secondary in Physicist at say publicly age virtuous 17.
In 1882, Mary accompanied Smith College in rendering hopes obtain earn organized Bachelor clamour Arts rerouteing Classics challenging Philosophy. Quieten, tragedy hit Mary’s assured when assemblage sister, Maud, passed forward. Mary took the masses year be off to coach her new siblings jaunt take trouble of composite mother whose mental stand for physical condition was deteriorating. While she was dwellingplace, she customary private lessons in European. She returned to Metalworker College, remit 1884, conceal complete need degree.
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