Mary calkins brief autobiography

  • Mary whiton calkins quotes
  • Mary calkins contribution to psychology
  • Did mary whiton calkins get her phd

    • •

    An internet resource developed by
    Christopher D. Green
    York University, Toronto, Ontario

    (Return to Classics index)

    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.

    I

    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 th

    •

    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 lista 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 grad 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 presiden

    •

    Lectures and Essays - Mary Whiton Calkins

    Biography

    Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930)

    Mary Whiton Calkins was born on 30 March 1863 in Hartford, Connecticut to Rev. Wolcott Calkins and Charlotte Whiton. She was the oldest of five children: Mary (1863), Maud (1864), Leighton (1868), Raymond (1869), and Grosvenor (1875).

    The majority of Mary’s childhood was spent in Buffalo, New York. Until, in 1881, at the age of seventeen, Mary’s family uprooted once again and moved to Newton, Massachusetts.

    Mary’s family greatly valued education, therefore, she attended a local elementary school in Buffalo, New York and learned German in private lessons. After her family moved, Mary attended Newtown High School in Newton at the age of 17.

    In 1882, Mary attended Smith College in the hopes to earn her Bachelor of Arts in Classics and Philosophy. However, tragedy struck Mary’s life when her sister, Maud, passed away. Mary took the following year off to tutor her other siblings and take care of

  • mary calkins brief autobiography