Florence Goodenough was an American psychologist and professor at the University of Minnesota who studied child intelligence and problems in child development. She is best known for introducing the Goodenough Draw-A-Man test, now known as the Draw-A-Person Test, which assessed intelligence in young children through a nonverbal drawing task, and for developing the Minnesota Preschool Scale. She served as president of the Society for Research in Child Development and wrote extensively on methods for evaluating children, including an early critique of the ratio IQ.
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BirthplaceHonesdale, Pennsylvania 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionCreated the Goodenough Draw-A-Man test (now the Draw-A-Person Test), a widely used nonverbal measure of children's cognitive development, and pioneered event and time sampling methods for studying children's emotional behavior. 1 Notable WorkMeasurement of Intelligence by Drawings (1926) 1 In the Other Atlases
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Florence Laura Goodenough (August 6, 1886, April 4, 1959) was an American psychologist and professor at the University of Minnesota who studied child intelligence and various problems in the field of child development.
Early life section
Florence Laura Goodenough was born on August 6, 1886 to Alice Gertrude Day and Linus North Goodenough in Honesdale, Pennsylvania.
Late life section
She died of a stroke in Lakeland on April 4, 1959.
Major accomplishments section
Goodenough created the draw-a-man test, used to measure intelligence in children.
IQ testing section
She published her first book: The Measurement of Intelligence by Drawings in 1926 which introduced her thoughts and ideas of children's IQ testing.
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