Alfred Binet
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The following essay offers both a short biography of Psychologist
and a present day practical application using the theory from which Binet
developed his Intelligence test.
Alfred Binet, born in Nice, France, on the eleventh of July, whose mother was an
artist and whose father was a physician, bec ....
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.... years, he
continuously demonstrated his loyalty in defending Charcot's doctrines on
hypnotic transfer and polarization until he was forced to accept the
counterattacks of Delboeuf and the Nancy School, which eventually caused a split
between student and teacher.
Having been married in 1884 to Laure Balbiani, whose father was E.G. Balbiani,
an embryologist at the College de France, Binet was given the opportunity to
work in his lab where his interest in 'comparative psychology' was piqued a ....
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