Alfred BinetLily Wang

Early Lifeborn July 8, 1857 in Nice born as Alfredo Binettifather is a physicianmother is an artistparents divorced when he was young and he then moved to Paris with his mother

Educationgraduated from law

school in 1878initially 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 Influenceworked at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris

under guidance of John-Martin Charcotsupported Charcot's research on

hypnotism resulted in professional embarrassment

when Charcot's ideas faltered under closer scientific evaluationThis experience soon turned his interest toward the study of development and intelligence

Workworked 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 Testwas 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 ScaleThe scale they developed became known as

the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale.His intelligence scale serves as the basis for

modern intelligence testsdid not believe that his test measured a

permanent or inborn degree of intelligenceAccording 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 scaleGoddard wanted to use mental testing as a

way to 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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