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Mary Whiton Calkins

Results of Research Study

Claire Hanna

2nd Block

  • Never any solid results about self-psychology.
  • As psychological views moved on, her theory became dated .
  • Most of her work has now been "swept under the rug".

Key Terms

  • Space Consciousness
  • Emotion
  • Color Theory
  • Association

Major Contribution to Psychology

  • Wrote The Persistent Problems of Philosophy.
  • After 1900, her major contribution was the development of self-psychology.
  • Her work with self-psych dealt mostly with space & time consciousness, emotion, association, color theory, & dreams.
  • Her theory was that the conscious self is the central fact of psychology.

Explanation of Key Terms

Major Perspectives

  • Her theory contradicts the behaviorist perspective.
  • In philosophy, she noted Royce's idealism as the main influence for her own system of "personalistic absolutism".
  • Space Consciousness- A general term for the various modes of perception or apprehension of space.
  • Emotion- And affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced.
  • Color Theory- A field study that attempts to define which colors work together or what emotional responses are evoked by particular colors.
  • Association- A connection formed under specific conditions among two or more psychological formations.
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