Leta Stear Hollingworth Early Childhood

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Childhood Leta Stetter Hollingworth was a psychologist who was born on 25th May 1886 in Chadron Nebraska in the USA. Leta Hollingworth’s mother Margaret Elinor Danley died when she was giving birth to her little sister while Hollingworth was three years old. Her father John G. Stetter then abandoned Hollingworth and her two little sisters. She and her sisters therefore raised by their grandparents. Hollingworth’s father returned when she was 12 years old. She and her sisters then forced to move to live with her father with his new wife in Valentine Nebraska. Hollingworth’s step-mother was abusive and authoritarian towards Hollingworth and her sisters. Therefore, studying is a shelter for Hollingworth. Which then allow Hollingworth to develop …show more content…

Therefore, their life in New York became poverty-stricken. Moreover, she was refused by Columbia while she wanted to get a job like her husband due to her gender. She was unable to get fellowship or scholarship. Luckily, in 1911, Harry was hired by the Coca-Cola Company to do research, Leta Was then hired by Harry as a research assistant. Finally, she was capable to take a graduate course at Columbia. She graduated with her Master's Degree in 1913. And that was the start of her Concern in Psychology of Women. She published “The Frequency of Amentia as Related to Sex” in 1913 as her Master Thesis. Then published “Functional Periodicity: An Experimental Study of the Mental and Motor Abilities of Women During Menstruation” in 1914. In 1916, while Hollingworth studying a Ph.D. under Thorndike in Columbia, she and Robert Lowie’s article “Science and Feminism” published, it was against the Variability Hypothesis which supported by Darwin and Thorndike. The thought of Hollingworth was the potential of women could be known only after they were able to choose their own career and maternity. At that year, Hollingworth gained her Ph. D. under …show more content…

She was almost the first to use The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale which published in 1916. Hollingworth aimed to manifest the test to test a “bright” children by using a retarded child as contrast. But that child scored 187 IQ and hence Hollingworth started to shift her focus from Psychology of Women to Gifted children. In 1920, Hollingworth published “The Psychology of Subnormal Children” which became an influential book in the field. She also published “Special Talents and Defects” in 1923 which emphasized special talents. In 1922, Hollingworth started an experiment with 50 gifted children whose age from 7-9 years old with IQs over 155. Hollingworth was the first to discover the coexist of giftedness and learning disabilities as she published “Gifted Children: Their Nature and Nurture” in 1926. Moreover, Hollingworth also published “The Psychology of Adolescent” which was important to the field in 1928. In 1929, Hollingworth became a full professor and a member of National Education Association (NEA) and the American Psychological Association (APA). Furthermore, she was also an editor of The Journal of Genetic Psychology. In 1936, the establishment of Speyer School gave a chance to Hollingworth to start her another experiment about gifted children. The school served as a laboratory like and allow

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