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Binet(dictionary)
Binet age(medicine)
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Binet-Simon scale(medicine)
Stanford-Binet intelligence scale(medicine)

Binet, Alfred (sh)




born July 8, 1857, Nice, France
died Oct. 18, 1911, Paris

French psychologist.

His interest in Jean-Martin Charcot's work on hypnosis prompted him to abandon a law career and study medicine at the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris (1878-91). He served as director of a research laboratory at the Sorbonne (1895-1911). A major figure in the development of experimental psychology in France, he founded L'Annee Psychologique, the first French journal on psychology, in 1895. He developed experimental techniques to measure reasoning ability; between 1905 and 1911 he and Theodore Simon developed influential scales for the measurement of intelligence of children. His works include Experimental Study of Intelligence (1903) and A Method of Measuring the Development of the Intelligence of Young Children (1915).