The First American to Be Called a "Professor of Psychology

question 153

Multiple Choice

The first American to be called a "professor of psychology," at the University of Pennsylvania in 1888 was ________.

• A) William James
• B) Edward Titchener
• C) J. M. Cattell
• D) G. Stanley Hall

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