The Development of Intelligence in Children: The Binet-Simon Scale
by Alfred Binet, Théodore Simon
Publications of the Training School at Vineland, New Jersey, Department of Research (no. 11)
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...and "That is not right" when it has been incorrect. In the first place--a fact that is important--he does not submit to this convention, and he must be reminded of it about 8 times before he begins to give the signal spontaneously 18 Let us say right here that Martin is show more not an exception to the rule con cerning the morons; all the morons have a visual memory as good as the normals of their age. and again he often fails. These lapses prove to us the difficulty he has in learning. In the second place we learn that he is truly an optimist. He believes that he has correctly replied in many cases where he has deceived himself. Six times he declares "That is right," when he was wrong and only 4 times did he admit he was wrong, and in 3 of these he had said nothing at all. These are indeed characteristic errors, where the absence of attention borders closely on absence of judgment. Such curious cases require careful study. We suppose that by a strong appeal to the attention, by long training one might succeed in arousing this lagging judgment. But that would no longer be an examination, it would be education. Let us note again with Martin, many inventions of figures and sometimes, though rarely, a tendency to follow the natural order in the invention. Thus one gives him the series 5, 1,4, 8, 2, 7, and he announces the series 5, 1, 2, 3, 7. It can thus be seen that in this test so far as it goes the memory is sufficient. It is not through absence of memory but through weakness of judgment that Martin fails. These examples show how necessary it is to carefully analyse results. A hasty examination would have recognized in Martin a reasonable memory, nothing more. Sensorial intelligence. Martin conducts himself here in a very... show lessTags
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Alfred Binet, a French psychologist, is best known for his applied research on intelligence. He initially worked on pathological psychology, which was the major psychological specialty in France at the time, writing on such topics as hysteria. In 1891, however, he turned to experimental psychology and established it as a subdiscipline of show more psychology. In 1905, at Binet's suggestion, the Ministry of Education considered setting up special classes for mentally abnormal children. In order to determine which children would be unable to profit from normal instruction, Binet and Theodore Simon proposed a series of 30 intelligence tests. The tests were immediately successful and assured Binet's fame. Lewis M. Terman made a subsequent refinement of the tests. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale is still in use today. Binet was one of the originators of the questionnaire method. He also studied the psychology of arithmetic prodigies and chess players and pioneered the study of small groups. Binet died in 1911. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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