Binet

Binet was an educational psychologist (actually a physician by training) who, around the turn of the century, founded the French school of intelligence testing that has come to dominate intelligence testing worldwide (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1985). Binet was concerned to find those students who were mentally handicapped, or "uneducable," and to remove them from the public schools. Thus, Binet's concern with intelligence testing was highly practical, and relatively atheoretical. Binet did not regard intelligence as an entity, or even a concept, to be studied in its own right, but rather as merely the average of many unlike abilities. The composite score of an individual on a Binet-style intelligence test is call an intelligence quotient, or IQ. A psychologist at Stanford University named Terman revised Binet's original tests, and this revision became the now classic Stanford-Binet, the model for nearly all intelligence testing (including, for example, college and graduate school admissions tests like the SAT, GRE, MCAT, GMAT, and LSAT).

Intelligence A:

Elementary Information Processing

Intelligence B:

Acquired Problem-Solving Skills

Intelligence C:

Artifact of Averaging Unlike Abilities

Binet

Intelligence Quotient

Cattell

Fluid IntelligenceCrystalized Intelligence

Eysenck

Intelligence AIntelligence BIntelligence C

Galton

Neural Processing Speed

Gould

Reified Abstraction

Jensen

Neural Processing Speed

Spearman

Positive Manifold

Sternberg

Practical IntelligenceAnalytic (Academic) Intelligence

Thurstone

Primary Mental Abilities

Wallach and Wing

Cognitive Vitality

Intelligence A:

Elementary Information Processing

Intelligence B:

Acquired Problem-Solving Skills

Intelligence C:

Artifact of Averaging Unlike Abilities

Reference

Eysenck, H. J., & Eysenck, M. W. (1985). Personality and individual differences: A natural science approach. New York: Plenum.

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