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  • noun French psychologist remembered for his studies of the intellectual development of children (1857-1911)

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Examples

  • If you find the Designer and Her score on Stanford-Binet is 150 I'll become a believer.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • Her protectress, Madame Cecilia Valmarano, found her a very proper husband in the person of a French dancer, called Binet, who had assumed the name of Binetti, and thus his young wife had not to become a French woman; she soon won great fame in more ways than one.

    The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

  • French dancer, called Binet, who had assumed the name of Binetti, and thus his young wife had not to become a French woman; she soon won great fame in more ways than one.

    The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • French dancer, called Binet, who had assumed the name of Binetti, and thus his young wife had not to become a French woman; she soon won great fame in more ways than one.

    Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 04: Return to Venice Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • Who refined the original intelligence scale developed by Alfred-Binet, which is now called the Stanford - Binet Intelligence Scale?

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows chuy_618 2009

  • A few of his principal articles are: "Mémoire sur la théorie des axes conjugués et des moments d'inertie des corps", enunciating the principle sometimes called Binet's Theorem (Journ. de l'Ec. pol.,

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • "Binet," said he, "forget for once that you are Pantaloon, and behave as a nice, amiable father-in-law should behave when he has secured a son-in-law of exceptionable merits.

    Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • The intelligence quotient is a mathematical expression, devised in France at the turn of the twentieth century by Alfred Binet.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • A precocious child who was promoted to fifth grade at age 7, he was asked by psychology professor Lewis Terman - creator of the Stanford-Binet IQ test - to participate in Terman's Genetic Studies of Genius, a long-term research project that followed the lives of 1,500 children into adulthood.

    William E. Bradford, USAID program officer and volunteer reader, dies at 96 Emma Brown 2011

  • Terman was most interested in intellectual achievement his revision of Alfred Binet's intelligence scale produced the Stanford-Binet IQ test, but his interviews were so detailed that the results could be used as a basis for studying the respondents' lives in follow-up interviews across the years.

    How to Keep Going and Going Laura Landro 2011

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