Francis Cecil Sumner Is Best Known

question 603

Multiple Choice

Francis Cecil Sumner is best known

• A)as a comparative psychologist, who wrote an influential book on animal behavior, titled The Animal Mind .
• B)for writing the first American psychology textbook and teaching the first psychology course.
• C)as the first President of the American Psychological Association.
• D)as the first African-American man to earn a doctoral degree in psychology in 1920 and chair of the Psychology Department at Howard University.

Understand the concepts and mechanisms behind the opponent-process theory of color vision.

Grasp the foundational principles of the trichromatic (Young-Helmholtz) theory of color vision.

Comprehend the retinex theory and its explanation for color perception.

Recognize phenomena explained by the theories of color vision such as negative afterimages and color constancy.

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