biography
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Washburn, Margaret Floy
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| female
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| lived:
| (1871–1939)
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| biography:
| Psychologist, born in New York City, New York, USA. She entered Vassar College at age 16, graduated in 1891, and received her PhD from Cornell in 1894. After teaching at Wells College for Women and other institutions, she returned to teach at Vassar (1903–37). She was a pioneer in introducing experimental research and faculty-student collaboration into the psychology department at an undergraduate liberal arts college. Her publications include a major work on animal behaviour, The Animal Mind (1908), and her book on the motor theory of mental functions, Movement and Mental Imagery (1916). |
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