Florence L. Goodenough: The First Women During The Testing Movement

Women made an important contribution to psychology during the testing movement. However, it was not an area in which women could fully thrive, since they were mainly only accepted in applied areas and not the academic. Therefore, many female psychologists were employed in the helping professions such as school psychology, child guidance, clinical psychology, and counseling psychology.

Florence L. Goodenough was one of the first women who made an important contribution during the testing movement. She earned her PhD from Stanford University and worked for more than 20 years at the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. Goodenough developed the Draw-A-Man Test (Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test) and it was used to assess non-verbal intelligence in children. She also

Maude Merrill James was the director of a psychological clinic for Children in California. She wrote along with Lewis Terman the 1937 revision of the Stanford-Binet intelligence test (Terman-Merrill Test), and also helped develop a battery of tests to assess IQ. Thelma Gwinn Thurstone, a professor at the University of North Carolina and director of a psychometric laboratory, helped develop the Primary Mental Abilities test. Psyche Cattell, daughter of James Mckeen Cattell, earned her doctoral in education at Harvard in 1972. Then, she developed the Infant Intelligence Scale by taking the Stanford-Binet and extending the age range to include infants as young as 3 months of age. Anne Anastasi, who is viewed as an authority on psychological testing, graduated from Fordham University and obtained her doctoral degree at a very