Transcript Alfred Binet - Hunting Hills High School

Lily Wang
Early Life
 born July 8, 1857 in Nice
 born as Alfredo Binetti
 father is a physician
 mother is an artist
 parents divorced when he was young
and he then moved to Paris with his
mother
Education
 graduated from law school in
1878
 initially planned to follow in his
father's footsteps and enroll in
medical school and study
science at Sorbonne
 educated himself in psychology
by reading works by individuals
such as Charles Darwin and
John Stuart Mill
Charcot’s Influence
 worked at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris under
guidance of John-Martin Charcot
 supported Charcot's research on hypnotism
 resulted in professional embarrassment when
Charcot's ideas faltered under closer scientific
evaluation
 This experience soon
turned his interest toward
the study of development
and intelligence
Work
 worked as the associate
director and researcher at
the Laboratory of
Experimental Psychology
 in 1894, he was appointed
the director of the lab and
remained in this position
until his death in 1911
IQ Test
 was asked by the French government to develop a
test to identify students with learning disabilities or
who required special help in school
 Binet and his colleague Theodore Simon developed a
series of tests designed to assess mental abilities
 Rather than focus on learned
information such as math and
reading, Binet instead
concentrated on other mental
abilities such as attention and
memory
Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale
 The scale they developed became known as the Binet-
Simon Intelligence Scale.
 His intelligence scale serves as the basis for modern
intelligence tests
 did not believe that his test measured a permanent or
inborn degree of intelligence
 According to Binet, an individual's score can vary and
suggested that factors such as motivation and other
variables can play a role in test scores.
Standford-Binet scale
 Goddard wanted to use mental testing as a way to
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evidence the superiority of the white race
He brought the Binet-Simon Scale to United States
and translated it into English
Terman standardized it using a large American sample
No longer used solely for advocating education for all
children
New objective includes setting hierarchy, determine
who can immigrate to U.S.
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