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Alfred Binet (July 8th 1857, Nice - October 28th 1911, Paris) is a Pédagogue and Psychologue French. It is known for its contribution essential with the Psychométrie.

Biography

Wire of a doctor and a artist-painter, Alfred Binet is born in Nice on July 8th, 1857. At the end of its secondary studies to the Louis-the-Large College in Paris, it begins from the studies of right, medicine and natural science.

In 1884, Alfred Binet marries the girl of the embryologist Balbiani and begins studies of natural science in the Sorbonne under the direction of his/her father-in-law. Encouraged by Théodule Ribot to continue these studies in the field of psychology, he works with Jean-Martin Charcot with the Hôpital of Salpêtrière where the Hypnose and the Suggestion are new and fertile topics of experimentation.

The birth of his/her two daughters, Madeleine (1885) and Alice (1888), provides him a subject of studies.

In 1890 it meets Henri Beaunis which created the laboratory of psychophysiology of the Sorbonne in 1889.

In 1892, Theodore Simon, intern of psychiatry to the colony of Perray-Vaucluse, contacts it about the abnormal children of which it with the load. They begin a collaboration.

In 1894, Alfred Binet founds with Henri Beaunis the review the psychological year (texts on line on the Persée gate). The following year, he becomes director of the laboratory of psychophysiology in the place of Henri Beaunis.

In 1905, at the request of the French government, Alfred Binet publishes a metric scale of the intelligence which it jointly worked out with Theodore Simon. The purpose of this scale is to measure the development of the intelligence of the children according to the age (mental age). In the following years, he will propose improvements. This work will be the starting point many other tests, in particular IQ.

Alfred Binet dies of a stroke the October 28th 1911.

Career

He is the inventor of the 1st tests of the development. “The people which have best the schools are the 1st people, if it is not it today it will be it” (Jules Simon) Following the reform of an obligatory school in 1905, it created a test the purpose of which was to measure the psychological development of the children. The test of mental age, not to confuse with test IQ This test functioned by series of questions to which the subject was to answer most clearly possible. Then it was necessary to refer to the calibration (Population of reference, i.e. the real age of the child) This call Test Binet and Simon tests.

Note on the test Binet and Simon

Test IQ is the Mental/age the age real X 100 it is a quotient, it was born in 1912 by some William Stern currently one uses the test WECHSLER, which is not a real quotient, because it uses a population which excluded a real relationship with a population from reference.