Psychology, elements of a new system of mental philosophy, on the basis of consciousness and common sense.

Mrs. Ricord and psychology for women, circa 1840.

“…Nowhere in her book did Ricord use the term psychology . (According to Fay, 1939/1966, Rauch, 1840, and Schmucker, 1842, were the first in America to use psychology in book titles.) It is clear, however, that she covered the territory in a systematic, comprehensive manner.…”

Portraits of a discipline: An examination of introductory psychology textbooks in America.

“…The next year a second printing appeared posthumously after the first printing sold out (Fay, 1939). Other influential texts included Samuel S. Schmucker's (1842) Psychology and Larens P. Hickok's Rational Psychology andEmpirical Psychology, published in 1848 and1854, respectively (Fay, 1939;Roback, 1964). According to Roback (1964), the first psychology texts to place bibliographic references either at the end of a chapter or at the end of the book were Francis Wayland's (1854) Intellectual Philosophy and Joseph Haven's (1857) text to make extensive use of diagrams (Ofiesh, 1959).…”