Binet and Simon's Intelligence Test

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Binet and Simon's intelligence test

A test developed by French researchers to measure behavioral aspects of intelligence for educational purposes.

Intelligence Definition

Defined as the ability to judge well, comprehend well, and reason well.

Three basic abilities of intelligence

Direction, adaptation, and criticism.

Direction

The ability to know what to do and how to do it.

Adaptation

The ability to create strategies for implementing knowledge and monitoring progress.

Criticism

The ability to step back and find errors in one's thinking.

Mental age

Indicates the average age of children who can solve a set of problems that a particular child is capable of solving.

Standardized measure of intelligence

A method that allows different researchers to use the same test and calculations to measure intelligence meaningfully.

Stanford-Binet test

An intelligence test that adapted Binet and Simon's work to the American context, developed by Terman.

Intelligence Quotient (IQ) formula

IQ = (mental age / chronological age) x 100.