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When we think about the word psychology we can understand that the word has been around for
quite some time. We can also look up that the foundations of psychology have been around for
many of years. In the reading in Chapter 1, we can learn that there was in fact some woman that
helped develop psychology. One name that might not come to mind to some people is Mary
Calkins. Mary was born in 1863 and was refused from going to further her education in
psychology because she was a woman. There was some test taking that she did perform such as
some of the test for Mr. William James. He allowed her to take several of his graduate seminars
as individual studies to help her learn and understand better. In 1905, she was selected as the first
woman president of the American Psychological Association and, the following year, was listed
as the twelfth leading psychologist in the United States (O’Connell & Russo, 1980; Wentworth,
1999). As we can learn psychology hasn’t just been around for a few decades but it has been
around for over hundreds of years. As we all know the study of psychology or psychological
behavior has been around since the early 1800’s and we have learned more about the features of
the behavior and why a person does or acts the way that they do. The connection involving the
brain and behavior became more clear during the nineteenth century, when doctors began
observing patients with bad head injuries. These patients often showed deficits in language and
memory or dramatic changes in their personality. One of the most famous cases was Phineas
Gage, who worked as a foreman on a railroad site. As we learned and progressed more about the
behavior during head injuries we have learned that this had to do with the brain. We have been
able to study this in animals to make it more efficient in humans as well. In 1836, a physician
named Marc Dax presented a paper suggesting that lesions on the left side of the brain were
associated with aphasia, or language disorders. We now know that the left side of the bran would
have to do with language. The first theorists to address this issue were psychologically

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When we think about the word psychology we can understand that the word has been around for quite some time. We can also look up that the foundations of psychology have been around for many of years. In the reading in Chapter 1, we can learn that there was in fact some woman that helped develop psychology. One name that might not come to mind to some people is Mary Calkins. Mary was born in 1863 and was refused from going to further her education in psychology because she was a woman. There was some test taking that she did perform such as some of the test for Mr. William James. He allowed her to take several of his graduate seminars as individual studies to help her learn and understand better. In 1905, she was selected as the first woman president of the American Psychological Association and, the following year, was listed as the twelfth leading psychologist in the United States (O'Connell & Russo, 1980; Wentworth, 1999). As we can learn psychology hasn't just been around for a few decades but it has been around for over hundreds of years. As we all know the study of psychology or psychological behavior has been around since the early 1800's and we have learned more about th ...
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