After Binet

French intelligence testing, 1900-1950

Bibliographic Data

ID4005033
AuthorsWilliam H Schneider (Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, corresponding author)
Year1992
Volume28
Issue2
Pages111-132
Publication date1992-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-5061 • E-ISSN: 1520-6696
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/1520-6696(199204)28:2<111::aid-jhbs2300280202>3.0.co;2-w
PMID11612779
OpenAlexW2024550326
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This article (based on published writings of the researchers plus unpublished data and reports in recently opened archives) examines why Alfred Binet's concept of multifaceted intelligence requiring lengthy and varied testing continued and flourished in the 1920s and 1930s in the laboratories of Henri Pieron, Henri Laugier and other French psychologists and psychotechnicians. While the Americans and British evolved theories and practices of intelligence measurement reducible to a single number, most French psychologists used a much more subtle and complex understanding of the phenomenon. This hindered mass applications of intelligence tests which did not occur in France until the end of the Second World War. The Terman version of Binet's test did not re-enter France until 1950.

Cognition · Epistemology · Intelligence quotient · Phenomenon · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales · Test (biology) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Historical and Scientific Studies · History · History of Science and Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology

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