PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mary Whiton Calkins
17 May 2018
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Introduction
Functionalism
• Consciousness serves a function.
• It enables us to consider our past, adjust to our present, and plan our future.
• James encouraged explorations of the functions of emotions, memories, willpower,
habits, and moment- to- moment streams of consciousness.
• Jaes’ itigs oed the pulishe He Holt to offe Jaes a otat fo a tetook
of the new science of psychology.
• James agreed and began work in 1878, with an apology for requesting two years to
finish his writing.
• The text proved an unexpected chore and actually took him 12 years.
• Why am I not surprised?
• More than a century later, people still read the resulting Principles of Psychology (1890)
and marvel at the brilliance and elegance with which James introduced psychology to
the educated public.
• Fist Woe i Psholog Jaes’ lega stes patl fo his Haad etoig ad
his writing.
• I , oe the ojetios of Haad’s pesidet, he aditted Ma Whito Calkins
into his graduate seminar (Scarborough & Furumoto, 1987).
• In those years women lacked even the right to vote.
• When Calkins joined, the other students (all men) dropped out. So James tutored her
alone.
• Late, she fiished all of Haad’s Ph.D. euirements, outscoring all the male students
on the qualifying exams.
• Alas, Harvard denied her the degree she had earned, offering her instead a degree from
Radliffe College, its udegaduate siste shool fo oe.
• Calkins resisted the unequal treatment and refused the degree.
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