Who was the first woman to receive a Ph.D.in psychology and who later wrote an influential book titled The Animal Mind?
A) Mary Whiton Calkins
B) Rosalie Rayner
C) Margaret Floy Washburn
D) Jean Piaget

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Margaret Floy Washburn was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology and later wrote the influential book titled The Animal Mind. Mary Whiton Calkins was also a pioneering female psychologist, but she did not receive a formal Ph.D. education. Rosalie Rayner was a research assistant for John B. Watson and co-authored the controversial Little Albert experiment, but did not receive a Ph.D. in psychology. Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development, but he was not the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology nor did he write The Animal Mind.

Who Was the First Woman to Receive a Ph