Essays Tagged: "Alfred Binet"
Alfred Binet
The following essay offers both a short biography of Psychologist Alfred Binet and a present day practical application using the theory from which Binet developed his ... present day practical application using the theory from which Binet developed his Intelligence test.Alfred Binet, born in Nice, France, on the eleventh of July, whose mother was an artist and whose fa ... nd opposable reasons than were initially intended by Binet) of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test.Alfred Binet 'attempted to penetrate the human mind, to analyze its wellspring, to understand [it as ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Jean Piaget
stitute in Geneva in 1921. Piaget also interned in Eugen Bleuler's psychiatric clinic in Zurich and Alfred Binet's laboratory school in Paris. In the latter, he was engaged in standardized mental test ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory Wafa Nurdin
nderstand the world the way adults do? Jean Piaget asked himself the same question while working at Alfred Binet's laboratory. He noticed that children of the same age tended to give the same wrong an ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
"Evaluate the Psychometric evidence underlying Herrnstein's and Murray's Analysis on Class Structure in American Life".
but it was found that the tests failed to predict school grades and other tests (Wissler). In 1905, Alfred Binet successfully devised tests for the French government. Since then intelligence tests hav ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
A complete guide to understanding the Stanford Binet Intelligence test.
t descendent of the Binet-Simon scale, the first intelligence scale created in 1905 by psychologist Alfred Binet and Dr. Theophilus Simon. This revised edition, released in 1986, was designed with a l ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
High Stakes Testing
ntelligence was the precursor for testing today. This movement was brought into fruition in 1905 by Alfred Binet's introduction of the first successful intelligence test. Before the time of Binet, tes ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
School Psychology
tions to the field of school psychology are attributed to Lightner Whitmer, Sir Francis Galton, and Alfred Binet. Through their brilliance, creativity, and innovation, these individuals have succeeded ... ents performed on such tests" (Reynolds, Gutkin, Elliot, & Witt, 1984, p.5).The achievements of Alfred Binet are far-reaching to say the least. He has been credited with designing the first compre ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Applying Multiple Intelligences Theory to Language Teaching.
this single ability could be measured. The first intelligence test, which was created in France by Alfred Binet, was composed of a set of out-of-context questions ranging from sensory discrimination ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies
What are the advantages and disadvantages of an IQ test.
and innate ability (Plomin, 1989).One of the first people to systematically study intelligence was Alfred Binet of France. At that time, French schools were over-crowded. This charge was to develop a ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Outline of Chapter 4: Understanding Student Differences in "Psychology Applied to Teaching" 11th edition By: Jack Snowman and Robert Biehler
I. The Nature & Measurement of IntelligenceA. The Origin of Intelligence Testing1. In 1904, Alfred Binet was appointed to a commission in Paris to study & recommend procedures for educatin ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Children Have Never Been Better Off
All things considered, do you think it was a good idea or bad idea for psychologists such as Binet and Terman to devise IQ tests? What value do these tests have? what problems do they create? ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Tests
ing. During that time, several other theorists became affiliated with testing. One of those men was Alfred Binet. Binet was a follower of English psychologist Francis Galton and his theory of individu ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology