Alfred+Binet





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Binet was a French psychologist who graduated from law school in 1878. He became the  “Commissioner of the Retarded” and started researching children in France to separate the normal children from the abnormal children. In 1903 he published his knowledge in //Experimental Studies of Intelligence//.

Soon after that Binet decided there needed to be a test to measure intelligence, so he worked with Simon in 1905 to create a test to find the mental ages of individual. Together they created the Binet-Simon inelegancy test. To create the test Binet and Simon studied children in their natural setting to discover what was “normal” at each age. This was the first ever test created to decide if students were falling behind. In 1908 Binet and Simon made a second edition to add and take away needed items and to include age levels from thee to thirteen.

This test gave individuals a mental age after completing a series of mind tasks. The persons’ mental age was not affected by their chronological age. If a child preformed at a mental age of 6 they were given a mental age of 6 regardless of their actual age. If their mental age was the same as their actual age the child was average. If their mental age was higher than their actual age they were considered mentally advanced. If their mental age was below their actual age they were considered retarded. Binet died in 1911 right before the next edition of his test was complete.

Binet-Simon Test
 * 1) "Le Regard"
 * 2) Prehension Provoked by a Tactile Stimulus
 * 3) Prehension Provoked by a Visual Perception
 * 4) Recognition of Food
 * 5) Quest of Food Complicated by a Slight Mechanical Difficulty
 * 6) Execution of Simple Commands and Imitation of Simple Gestures
 * 7) Verbal Knowledge of Objects
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Verbal Knowledge of Pictures
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Naming of Designated Objects
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Immediate Comparison of Two Lines of Unequal Lengths
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Repetition of Three Figures
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Comparison of Two Weights
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Suggestibility
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Verbal Definition of Known Objects
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Repetition of Sentences of Fifteen Words
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Comparison of Known Objects from Memory
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Exercise of Memory on Pictures
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Drawing a Design from Memory
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Immediate Repetition of Figures
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Resemblances of Several Known Objects Given from Memory
 * 21) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Comparison of Lengths
 * 22) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Five Weights to be Placed in Order
 * 23) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Gap in Weights
 * 24) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Exercise upon Rhymes
 * 25) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Verbal Gaps to be Filled
 * 26) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Synthesis of Three Words in One Sentence
 * 27) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Reply to an Abstract Question
 * 28) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Reversal of the Hands of a Clock
 * 29) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Paper Cutting
 * 30) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Definitions of Abstract Terms