Leta Stetter Hollingworth
1886-1939
Hollingworth's Significant Contributions
Hollingworth excelled in 3 areas:
- psychology of women
- clinical psychology
- educational psychology
Leta's Big Accomplishments
-challenged the variability hypothesis that supposedly explained and justified female inferiority
-first to study the psychology of women
-first to perform research that explored the inner workings of uncommonly intelligent children; credited at the founder of the psychology of the exceptional child