PSY 362 Chapter 10: Individual Differences in Intelligence
26 Mar 2018
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Alfred binet : found that following galton"s methods of measuring intelligence often resulted in falsely concluding that deaf and blind children had low intelligence; attempted to measure directly the cognitive abilities he thought constituted intelligence. Binet was primarily interested in what made people different test designed to directly measure intelligence. Theodore simon : collaborated with binet to develop first. Binet-simon scale of intelligence 1905 : devised to directly measure various cognitive abilities they believed intelligence comprised. 30 tests ranging in difficulty from simple eye movements to abstract definitions. 3 were measuring motor development and the other 27 were designed to measure cognitive abilities. Tests were arranged in order of difficulty so the more tests they passed, the more fully developed their intelligence was assumed to be. The scale was given to normal children and to children thought to have retardation, all of them between ages 2 and 12.
