Alfred Binet

Alfred Binet (July 8, 1857 – October 18, 1911), French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test, the basis of today's IQ test. Image File history File links Alfred_Binet. ... Image File history File links Alfred_Binet. ... is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... A psychologist is a scientist and/or clinician who studies psychology, the systematic investigation of the human mind, including behavior and cognition. ... For other uses, see Inventor (disambiguation). ... ... ...

Born in Nice, Binet was a French psychologist who published the first modern intelligence test, the Binet-Simon intelligence scale, in 1905. His principal was to identify students who needed special help in coping with the school curriculum. Along with his collaborator Theodore Simon, Binet published revisions of his intelligence scale in 1908 and 1911, the last appearing just before his untimely death. A further refinement of the Binet-Simon scale was published in 1916 by Lewis M. Terman, from Stanford University, who incorporated the German psychologist William Stern's proposal that an individual's intelligence level be measured as an intelligence quotient (I.Q.). Terman's test, which he named the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale formed the basis for one of the modern intelligence tests still commonly used today. They are all colloquially known as IQ tests. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... Theodore Simon co-created the Standford-Binet test with Alfred Binet ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Lewis Madison Terman (1877-1956) was a professor of cognitive psychology at Stanford University, perhaps best known for inventing the Stanford-Binet IQ test, which popularized IQ tests in America. ... Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ... Lewis William Stern (1871-1938) was a German psychologist and philosopher born in Berlin. ... “IQ” redirects here. ... The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale was a refinement of the earlier Binet-Simon Scale. ...

Binet and chess

In 1894, Binet conducted one of the first psychological studies into chess. It investigated the cognitive facilities of chess masters. Binet hypothesised that chess depends upon the phenomenological qualities of visual memory but after studying the reports by master participants, it was concluded that memory was only part of the chain of cognition involved in the game process. The players were blindfolded and required to play the game from memory. It was found that only masters were able to play successfully without seeing the board for a second time and that amateur or intermediate players found it to be an impossible task. It was further concluded that experience, imagination and memories of abstract and concrete varieties were required in grand master chess. The line of psychological chess research was followed up in the 1950s by Reuben Fine and in the 1960s by Adriaan de Groot. 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Chess is a recreational and competitive game for two players. ... Cognitive The scientific study of how people obtain, retrieve, store and manipulate information. ... Use of the word phenomenology in modern science is described in the separate article phenomenology (science). ... Visual memory is a part of memory preserving some characteristics of our senses pertaining to visual experience. ... Reuben Fine (October 11, 1914 - March 26, 1993) was one of the best chess players in the world during the 1930s. ... Adriaan de Groot, a Dutch chess master and psychologist conducted some of the most famous chess experiments of all time in the 1940s-60. ...

Publications

• La psychologie du raisonnement; Recherches expérimentales par l'hypnotisme (1886; English translation, 1899), his first book.
• Perception intérieure (1887).
• Etudes de psychologie expérimentale (1888).
• Les altérations de la personnalité (1892; English translation, 1896).
• Introduction à la psychologie expérimentale (1894; with co-authors).
• On Double Consciousness (1896).
• La fatigue intellectuelle (1898; with co-author Henri).
• La Suggestibilité (1900).
• Etude expérimentale de l'intelligence (1903).
• L'âme et le corps (1905).
• Les révélations de l'écriture d'après un contrôle scientifique (1906).
• Les enfants anormaux (1907; with co-author Simon).
• Les idées sur les enfants (1900).

He was one of the editors of L'année psychologique, a yearly volume comprising original articles and reviews of the progress of psychology.

See also

• Stanford-Binet IQ test

The development of the Stanford-Binet IQ test initiated the modern field of intelligence testing. ...

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