Women in psychology

Question 1

Mary Whiton Calkins

Answer 1

Earliest female influence in psychology
First woman to become president of the American
Psychological Association (APA) in 1918
Influenced areas of memory, dreams and self-psychology

Question 2

Margaret Washburn

Answer 2

Trained by Titchener (a structuralist)
Second woman to become president of the APA in 1921
Influenced areas of animal psychology, sensation and
perception and comparative psychology

Question 3

Karen Horney

Answer 3

Recognized as the first feminist psychologist
Influenced areas of neurosis and psychoanalysis

Question 4

Anna Freud

Answer 4

Daughter of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud
Recognized for her founding contributions to child
psychology
Influenced studies on child development and ego
psychology

Question 5

Mary Ainsworth

Answer 5

Most influential in developmental psychology
Recognized for her work on attachment theory
“Strange Situation”

Question 6

Sandra Bem

Answer 6

Recognized for her work on gender and sexuality
Created the gender schema theory
Bem Sex-Role Inventory

Question 7

Leta Hollingsworth

Answer 7

Recognized for her work on intelligence and the
psychology of women

Question 8

Jane Goodall

Answer 8

Field: Primatology, Ethology, Anthropology
Famous For: Groundbreaking research on chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.
chimpanzee tool use, behaviour, social structure