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.
ANSWER: d
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