Binet

[ bih-ney; French bee-ne ]

/ bɪˈneɪ; French biˈnɛ /

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[al-frid; French al-fred], /ˈæl frɪd; French alˈfrɛd/, 1857–1911, French psychologist: co-deviser of the Binet-Simon scale.

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Terman created the Stanford component of the widely used Stanford-Binet intelligence test.
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Since the investigations by Binet we really try to trace fetichism back to erotic impressions of childhood.
Delusion and Dream|Wilhelm Jensen
Complete references in Binet, "Les altrations," p. 197, footnote.
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology|C. G. Jung
"It is still the Binet Test, fourteen-year-old mind," laughed the girl.
Under the Law|Edwina Stanton Babcock

Binet's scale has been criticised from various points of view.
Mentally Defective Children|Alfred Binet
Like everything that Dr. Binet writes, the subject is stated and expounded lucidly.
Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume II (of 3)|George John Romanes

Binet

[ bĭ-nā′ ]

Alfred 1857-1911

French psychologist. With French physician Théodore Simon (1873-1961), he developed (1905) the first widely accepted test for measuring intelligence.