AP PSYCHOLOGY

TESTING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

ASSESSING INTELLIGENCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who revised Binet’s test to assess Americans and renamed it Standford-Binet?
A
Francis Galton
B
Alfred Binet
C
Lewis Terman
D
David Wechsler
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The test was later revised by psychologist Lewis Terman and became known as the Stanford-Binet.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the United States, his test was translated and revised by Stanford psychologist Lewis Terman and became known as the widely used Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scale.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5) is an individually administered measure of intelligence and cognitive abilities for persons 2–85 years and older.

Detailed explanation-4: -Terman and his Stanford colleagues translated Binet’s test, adapted the content for U.S. schools, set new age norms and standardized the distribution of scores so that the mean score would always be 100. Terman called the new version the Stanford-Binet test.

Detailed explanation-5: -Particularly, the individual who revised the Binet-Simon scale and named it the Stanford-Binet Intelligence was psychologist Louis Terman (d). This psychological test is an intelligence test and nowadays is in its fifth edition.

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