AP PSYCHOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR

BIOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

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Binet and Simon designed a test of intellectual abilities in order to
A
provide a quantitative estimate of inherited intellectual potential.
B
distinguish between academic and practical intelligence.
C
identify children likely to have difficulty learning in regular school classes.
D
assess general capacity for goal-directed adaptive behavior.
E
distinguish between people with high general intelligence factor (g) and savant syndrome.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -By 1905, Binet and Simon developed their first in a series of tests designed to measure intelligence. It was simply called the Binet-Simon Scale.

Detailed explanation-2: -Binet and Simon created a test designed to predict which children would succeed and which ones would have difficulty in school. Binet and Simon conceptualized the idea of mental age, the cognitive abilities that should correspond to a particular age.

Detailed explanation-3: -noun Psychology. a test for determining the relative development of intelligence, especially of children, consisting of a series of questions and tasks graded with reference to the ability of the normal child to deal with them at successive age levels.

Detailed explanation-4: -Introduced by Albert Binet and published as the Simon–Binet test in 1905 (Binet and Simon, 1905), the first tool for the assessment of intelligence was aimed to detect and support children with special needs. The items included in this test battery reflected age-appropriate intellectual ability.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale was first developed in 1905 by French psychologist Alfred Binet and his collaborator Theodore Simon to test the attention, memory, and verbal skill of schoolchildren and thereby measure their intelligence. It was revised in 1908 and 1911.

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