Florence Goodenough
Psychologist, Author
1886 – 1959
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Who was Florence Goodenough?
Florence Laura Goodenough 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. 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.
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- Born
- Aug 6, 1886
Honesdale - Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- Died
- Apr 4, 1959
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on July 23, 2013
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