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.