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John Dewey 1. John Dewey was born on October 20th, 1859. He obtained his bachelors degree at the University of Vermont and obtained his PhD in 1884 at Johns Hopkins University. 2. After college, Dewey taught high school for a few years. After receiving his PhD he taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota. He spent 10 years teaching at the University of Chicago. He began working at Columbia University starting in 1904. James Rowland Angell and Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley were two of his students. 3. Dewey published the first American textbook in psychology titled Psychology. He also argued that behavior and conscious experience could not be reduced into elements in his article "The Reflexive Arc Concept in Psychology". At the University of Chicago, he established a laboratory school.

James Rowland Angell 1. James Rowland Angell was born on May 8, 1869 in Burlington, Vermont. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan while studying under John Dewey. He attempted to get a doctoral degree while studying at the University of Halle and the University of Berlin in Germany. 2. He taught one year at the University of Minnesota and then 25 years at the University of Chicago. Afterward, he became president of Yale University. He became the 15th president of the APA in 1906. For his work, Angell received 23 honorary degrees. Both Harvey Carr and Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley were his students. 3. In the Psychological Review, Angell described the three major themes of functional psychology. He also published a textbook called Psychology.

Harvey Carr 1. Harvey Carr was born on April 30, 1873. He received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Depaw University and the University of Colorado. In 1905, he received his PhD at the University of Colorado. 2. He taught at a Texas high school and a state teachers college in Michigan between 1905 and 1908. Starting in 1908, he taught at the University of Chicago. In 1926, he became president of the APA. 3. Carr conducted the Kerplunk experiment with John B. Watson. He defined the subject matter of psychology as a mental activity. He also stated that mental activity is meant for acquiring, fixating, retaining, organizing, and evaluating experiences to determine how an individual acts.

Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley 1. Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley was born in 1874 in Chicago. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Colorado and her PhD in 1900. 2. After marrying, she accepted a directorship of vocation breu of the public school system in 1908 in Cincinnati. However, she went back to the University of Chicago to do her dissertation. 3. Woolley did the first experimental test of the Darwinian idea that women are biologically inferior to men and published her results in The Mental Traits of Sex: An Experimental Investigation of the Normal Mind in Men and Women. She also wrote 2 reviews on sex differences for Psychological Bulletin.

Robert Yerkes 3. Yerkes urged the Society of Experimental Psychologists to think about how Psychology in general could help in the war effort in WWI. He also developed the army's Alpha and Beta intelligence tests. He founded the Yale University Laboratories of Primate Biology.

Lillian Moller Gilbreth 1. Lillian Moller Gilbreth was born on May 24, 1878 in Oakland, California. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of California, where she also attempted to obtain a doctorate.