{"id":963,"date":"2024-11-15T21:37:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T21:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/?page_id=963"},"modified":"2024-11-15T21:37:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T21:37:59","slug":"alfred-binet-1857-1911","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/alfred-binet-1857-1911\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfred Binet\n1857-1911"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acsu.buffalo.edu\/~duchan\/new_history\/images\/binet.jpg\" alt=\"Alfred Binet\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Alfred Binet has come to be known as the person who invented intelligence tests. With Th\u00e9odore Simon, Binet devised a series of tests that, with revisions, came to be known as the Binet-Simon scale. It was used widely in schools, industries, and the army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Binet was a French psychologist who served as the director of the psychology laboratory at the Sorbonne (1894-1911). He was a member of the French Ministry\u2019s Commission on the Education of Retarded Children (1904).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Binet defined intelligence as \u201cthe components of intelligence are reasoning, judgment, memory, and the power of abstraction.\u201d He measured intelligence as \u201cgeneral mental ability of individuals in intelligent behaviors.\u201d He described intelligence testing as classifying, not measuring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Binet realized the limitations of his scale. HHe argued for the use of qualitative as well as quantitative measures for evaluating intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Translated Writings by Alfred Binet and Colleagues, in Chronological Order<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Binet, A. (1916).&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/psychclassics.yorku.ca\/Binet\/binet1.htm\">New methods for the diagnosis of the intellectual level of subnormals<\/a>. In E. S. Kite (Trans.),&nbsp;The development of intelligence in children. Vineland, NJ: Publications of the Training School at Vineland. (Originally published 1905 in&nbsp;L&#8217;Ann\u00e9e Psychologique, 12, 191-244.) See related&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/psychclassics.yorku.ca\/Binet\/intro.htm\">introduction<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/psychclassics.yorku.ca\/Binet\/commentary.htm\">commentary<\/a>&nbsp;by Henry L. Minton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Binet. A., &amp; Simon, T. (1916).&nbsp;The development of intelligence in children. Baltimore, Williams &amp; Wilkins. (Reprinted 1973, New York: Arno Press; 1983, Salem, NH: Ayer Company). The 1973 volume includes reprints of many of Binet&#8217;s articles on testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Writings about Alfred Binet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Bergin, D. A., &amp; Cizek, G. J. (2001). Alfred Binet. In J. A. Palmer (Ed.),&nbsp;Fifty major thinkers on education: From Confucius to Dewey&nbsp;(pp. 160-164). London: Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fancher, R. E. (1985).&nbsp;The intelligence men: Makers of the IQ controversy. New York: W. W. Norton &amp; Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siegler, R. S. (1992). The other Alfred Binet.&nbsp;Developmental Psychology, 28, 179-190.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wolf, T.H. (1973).&nbsp;Alfred Binet. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2001-2023 by&nbsp;Judith Felson Duchan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred Binet has come to be known as the person who invented intelligence tests. 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