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          Florence Laura Goodenough (August 6, – April 4, ) was an.!

          General Biography.

        1. General Biography.
        2. American developmental psychologist.
        3. Florence Laura Goodenough (August 6, – April 4, ) was an.
        4. Florence Laura Goodenough was a pioneer in psychology and the study of gifted children.
        5. This chapter discusses the life and work of the developmental psychologist, Florence Goodenough.

          6. Goodenough, Florence Laura (1886–1959)

          American developmental psychologist. Born Florence Laura Goodenough in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, on August 6, 1886; died in Lakeland, Florida, on April 4, 1959; youngest of eight children of Lines Goodenough (a farmer) and Alice (Day) Goodenough; attended rural school in Rileyville, Pennsylvania; Millersville (PA) Normal School, B.Pd., 1908; undergraduate degree from Columbia University, 1920, master's, 1921; Ph.D.

          from Stanford University; never married; no children.

          Florence Goodenough spent a decade teaching in small rural schools in Pennsylvania before earning bachelor's and master's degrees at Columbia during the early 1920s.

          She then transferred to Stanford University in California, where, for her Ph.D. thesis, she devised the "Draw-a-Man" intelligence test, which could determine the level of development by having a child submit a simple drawing of a man.

          Her thesis, called Measurement of Intelligence by Drawings, was published in