Kate Gordon Moore (February 18, 1878 – October 4, 1963) was an American psychologist whose work focused on various aspects within cognitive psychology, and is noted for her work with color vision and perception, as well as aesthetics, memory, imagination, emotion, developmental tests for children, and attention span.
Her focus of research shifted once more later on in life and started to keen in on imagination and how it related to her earlier works of memory and emotion.
1912–16 she held the position of associate professor of education at Bryn Mawr College upon her arrival back into the United States.
In 1930 she was given the opportunity following the death of her college, Shepherd Ivory Franz, to serve as the chair of the UCLA psychology department.
Dr. Kate Gordon retired in 1948 and was quickly given the position of professor emerita and even came back to UCLA to hold lectures when she was needed.
[2][3][4] During her career, Kate Gordon published a number of research papers, all on the various topics under the branch of cognitive psychology.
The main areas of cognitive psychology that she focused on are color vision and perception, as well as aesthetics, memory, imagination, and attention span.
In this paper she states that there are issues with McDougall’s rejection of the Hering-Muller theory of light and color vision, and his support for the Young-McDougall theory, for which she stated, “there are certain facts which offer difficulties.”[5] Gordon also wrote and published numerous textbooks for college students studying psychology;[6] two such textbooks are Esthetics and Educational Psychology.