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Robert Sessions Woodworth (* 16. Oktober 1869 in Belchertown, Massachusetts; † 4. Juli 1962 in New York) war in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ein einflussreicher US-amerikanischer Psychologe. 1921 wurde er in die National Academy of Sciences, 1935 in die American Academy of Arts and Sciences und 1936 in die American ...
Robert Sessions Woodworth (October 17, 1869 – July 4, 1962) was an American psychologist and the creator of the personality test which bears his name. A graduate of Harvard and Columbia, he studied under William James along with other prominent psychologists as Leta Stetter Hollingworth, James Rowland Angell, and Edward Thorndike.
16. Apr. 2024 · Robert S. Woodworth was an American psychologist who conducted major research on learning and developed a system of “dynamic psychology” into which he sought to incorporate several different schools of psychological thought. Woodworth worked as a mathematics instructor before turning to psychology.
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Robert S. Woodworth (Belchertown, Massachusetts, October 17, 1869–New York City, New York, July 4, 1962) was the son of a Congregationalist minister and a mother who taught moral philosophy at a women’s seminary that she helped to found.
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Robert Sessions Woodworth (1869-1962) was for many years the dean of American psychologists. He was the most influential exponent of the functionalist viewpoint characteristic of the mainstream of psychology in the United States.
Through these texts, Woodworth articulated an inclusive, eclectic vision for 20th-century psychology: diverse in its problems, but unified by the faith that careful empirical work would produce steady scientific progress. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Robert Sessions Woodworth (October 17, 1869 – July 4, 1962) was an American psychologist. He wrote numerous textbooks and handbooks; his Psychology: A Study of Mental Life (1921) and Experimental Psychology (1938) went through many editions and were used for generations of undergraduate students.
