Florence Goodenough
| Florence Goodenough | |
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| Born |
August 6, 1886 Honesdale, Pennsylvania |
| Died | April 4, 1959 (aged 72) Lakeland, Florida |
| Fields | Psychologist, professor |
| Academic advisors | Leta Stetter Hollingworth |
Florence Laura Goodenough (August 6, 1886 – April 4, 1959) was an American psychologist and professor at the University of Minnesota who is noted for developing the Minnesota Preschool Scale and the Goodenough Draw-A-Man test (now the Draw-A-Person Test). She wrote the Handbook of Child Psychology in 1933, and she became president of the National Council of Women Psychologists in 1942. She is also noted for her instruction of Ruth Howard, the second African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Psychology. Florence Goodenough never married.
Florence Laura Goodenough was born on August 6, 1886 in Honesdale, Pennsylvania and was the youngest of nine children. She was home-schooled and received the equivalent of a high school diploma. In 1908 she graduated with a Bachelor of Pedagogy from Normal School in Millersville, Pennsylvania. She earned her B.S. in 1920 from Columbia University. At Columbia she studied under Leta Stetter Hollingworth, and earned her M.A. in 1921 while working with Leta Hollingsworth. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1924, and at the age of 35.
Also at Stanford, Lewis Terman was beginning a study on gifted children and was selecting prospective researchers for his work. Goodenough was noticed by Terman because of her IQ score. She was chosen, and contributed substantially over the duration of the project, serving as chief field psychologist and chief research psychologist. Goodenough was listed as a contributor to Terman's book Genetic Studies of Genius. Soon after she joined the Institute of Child Welfare at the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor. She became a professor in 1931. John Anderson and Goodenough offered some of the first undergraduate and graduate courses in developmental psychology. At the University of Minnesota Goodenough created the Draw-a-Man test (Goodenough-Harris Draw-A-Person Test), which could measure intelligence in children. She published the test in her 1926 book Measurement of Intelligence by Drawing, which included detailed accounts of procedures, scoring, and examples.
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