florence goodenough introduced the technique of using the drawing of a man as a measure of intelligence.
florence goodenough introduced the technique of using the drawing of a man as a measure of intelligence.
who introduced the technique of using the drawing of a man as a measure of intelligence?
florence goodenough
art therapists and other professionals use art-based assessments to evaluate emotional, cognitive, and developmental conditions. there are also many psychological assessments that utilize artmaking to analyze various types of mental functioning (betts, 2005). art therapists and other professionals are educated to administer and interpret these assessments, most of which rely on simple directives and a standardized array of art materials (malchiodi 1998, 2003; betts, 2005). the first drawing assessment for psychological purposes was created in 1906 by german psychiatrist fritz mohr (malchiodi 1998). in 1926, researcher florence goodenough created a drawing test to measure the intelligence in children called the draw-a-man test (malchiodi 1998). the key to interpreting the draw-a-man test was that the more details a child incorporated into the drawing, the more intelligent they were (malchiodi, 1998). goodenough and other researchers realized the test had just as much to do with personality as it did intelligence (malchiodi, 1998). several other psychiatric art assessments were created in the 1940s, and have been used ever since (malchiodi 1998).
art therapy
transfer technique (drawing)









































the transfer technique is a special drawing technique that was developed by the painter and draftsman jules pascin. in pascin’s mind a drawing should be done in complete freedom by the hand that is doing the drawing, without being controlled by the eye. he developed a form of blind contour drawing whereby a sheet of carbon paper was laid between two sheets of paper. the drawing itself was done using a non-writing pen (or stylus).









































section::::the transfer technique as used by kristians tonny.
transfer technique (drawing)