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Alfred Binet
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Alfred Binet was a French psychologist who created the first practical intelligence test, fundamentally changing how we measure and understand mental ability. His work in the early 1900s established the foundation for modern IQ testing and had lasting impacts on education and psychology.
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- Born
- 1857
- Died
- 1911
- Works
- 122
Top works
- Les altérations de la personnalité
- The psychic life of micro-organisms
- Les idées modernes sur les enfants
- L'âme et le corps
- Psychology of prestidigitation
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Quotes
- “It is necessary to protect oneself from over exaggeration; one must not suppose that there exists, even in the realm of partial memory, an absolutely pure auditory type; real life does not make such schemas... In reality, when one says that a person belongs to the auditory type... one wants to say simply that with regard to that person the auditory memory is preponderant.”
- “It seems to me that people of talent and of genius serve better than average examples for making us understand the laws of character, because they present more extreme traits.”
- “Since we seek to know what is the physical phenomenon we perceive, we must first enunciate this proposition, which will govern the whole of our discussion: to wit— Of the outer world we know nothing except our sensations.”
- “The world is but an assembly of present, past, and possible sensations; the affair of science is to analyze and co-ordinate them by separating their accidental from their constant relations.”
- “We are, for the rest, so wrapped up in sensations that none of our boldest conceptions can break through the circle.”
- “The mechanical conception of the universe is nothing but naïve realism.”
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Alfred Binet (/bɪˈneɪ/; French: [binɛ]; 8 July 1857 – 18 October 1911), born Alfredo Binetti, was a French psychologist who together with Théodore Simon invented the first practical intelligence test, the Binet–Simon test. In 1904, Binet took part in a commission set up by the French Ministry of Education to decide whether school children with learning difficulties should be sent to a special boarding school attached to a lunatic asylum, as advocated by the French psychiatrist and politician Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, or whether they should be educated in classes attached to regular schools as advocated by the Société libre pour l'étude psychologique de l'enfant (SLEPE) of which Binet was a member. There was also debate over who should decide whether a child was capable enough for regular education. Bourneville argued that a psychiatrist should do this based on a medical examination. Binet and Simon wanted this to be based on objective evidence. This was the beginning of the IQ test. A preliminary version was published in 1905. The full version was published in 1908, and slightly revised in 1911, just before Binet's death.
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