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Definition of alfred binet in French English dictionary
- Alfred Binet (1857-1911), French psychologist and researcher, co-developer of one of the first standard intelligence tests
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Definition of alfred binet in English English dictionary
- (1857-1911) French psychologist and researcher, co-developer of one of the first standard intelligence tests
- born July 8, 1857, Nice, France died Oct. 18, 1911, Paris French psychologist. His interest in Jean-Martin Charcot's work on hypnosis prompted him to abandon a law career and study medicine at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris (1878-91). He served as director of a research laboratory at the Sorbonne (1895-1911). A major figure in the development of experimental psychology in France, he founded L'Année Psychologique, the first French journal on psychology, in 1895. He developed experimental techniques to measure reasoning ability; between 1905 and 1911 he and Theodore Simon developed influential scales for the measurement of intelligence of children. His works include Experimental Study of Intelligence (1903) and A Method of Measuring the Development of the Intelligence of Young Children (1915)
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Definition of alfred binet in English French dictionary
- Alfred Binet (1857-1911), psychologue, psychologiste et pédagogue français connu comme l'inventeur de la psychométrie, il établit une échelle métrique de l'intelligence et développe différents tests de l'Intelligence (QI)