Henry Goddard
Psychologist, Author
1866 – 1957
Who was Henry Goddard?
Henry Herbert Goddard was a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist in the early 20th century. He is known especially for his 1912 work The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, which he himself came to regard as deeply flawed, and for being the first to translate the Binet intelligence test into English in 1908 and distributing an estimated 22,000 copies of the translated test across the United States. He also introduced the term "moron" into the field.
He was the leading advocate for the use of intelligence testing in societal institutions including hospitals, schools, the legal system and the military. He played a major role in the emerging field of clinical psychology, in 1911 helped to write the first U.S. law requiring that blind, deaf and mentally retarded children be provided special education within public school systems, and in 1914 became the first American psychologist to testify in court that subnormal intelligence should limit the criminal responsibility of defendants.
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- Born
- Aug 14, 1866
United States of America - Also known as
- Henry H. Goddard
- Henry Herbert Goddard
- Henry H. Goddard
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Haverford College
- Clark University
- Employment
- Ohio State University
- Lived in
- Vineland
- Maine
- Died
- Jun 18, 1957
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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