Alfred Binet
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Alfred Binet
- July 8 1857 Nice, France - October 18 1911 Paris, France.
-Father: physician and mother: artist.
-Passion for art and literature at a young age, wrote plays.
-Parents divorced
-Study doctorate law in Paris with his mother
-Development of children (specifically his daughters, Madeline and Alice).
-Corresponds with study of cognition in children.
-Famous work on the topic of intelligence.
-Spent time on child study and experimental teaching.
-Explored functionalism.
-Binet and assistant Theodore Simon created the ‘Binet -Simon Intelligence Scale’.
-A series of tests designed to assess mental abilities in children.
-Results are focused on mental abilities like attention and memory.
-Intelligence scales serve as the basis for modern IQ tests. -Test helped define the differences between children of different mental capacities.
-To help find children who have trouble coping with the school curriculum.
-Weaknesses: is introverted
-Strengths: is enthusiastic
1857 Born
1872 Went to Paris
1890 Published three papers describing his observations of his daughters
1903 Developed the first intelligence tests with the help of Simon
1903 Published his methods in the book L'Etude experimentale de l'intelligence
1908 Binet-Simon scale second version
1911 Binet dies just after the third version of Binet-Simon test is published
Photo by Estée Janssens
