Meaning & use
Alfred Binet
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UK/ˈælfrɪd bɪˈneɪ/
US/ˈælfrɪd bɪˈneɪ/
Meaning
proper nounproper
French psychologist who, with Theodore Simon, created in 1905 an early intelligence test to find children needing extra help in school.
Grammar: Proper name: capitalize both parts.
Patterns
- the Binet-Simon scale
Alfred Binet designed tests to help struggling pupils.
Psychology students study Alfred Binet's early scale.
Alfred Binet worked with Theodore Simon in Paris.
Common combinations
- Binet-Simon scale
- The Binet-Simon scale measured mental age.
- Stanford-Binet test
- The Stanford-Binet test was based on his work.
- Binet's test
- Binet's test assessed reasoning.
- mental age
- Binet introduced the idea of mental age.
Word family
- Binet-Simon scale noun
- the first practical intelligence test
- Stanford-Binet proper noun
- a later revised intelligence test
- Binet proper noun
- the psychologist's surname
Commonly confused: Alfred Binet or Stanford-Binet?
Alfred Binet vs Stanford-Binet
The Stanford-Binet is a later American revision of his test, not the original scale made by Binet and Simon.
Practice
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