AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -It wasn’t until the turn of the 20th century that Frenchman Alfred Binet (1857-1911) developed the first test resembling a modern intelligence test.

Detailed explanation-2: -Interest in intelligence dates back to more than a century ago. 1 But it wasn’t until psychologist Alfred Binet was asked to identify which students needed educational assistance that the first intelligence quotient (IQ) test was born.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first modern intelligence test in IQ history was developed in 1904, by Alfred Binet (1857-1911) and Theodore Simon (1873-1961). The French Ministry of Education asked these researchers to develop a test that would allow for distinguishing mentally retarded children from normally intelligent, but lazy children.

Detailed explanation-4: -Binet was tasked with finding a way to distinguish children with cognitive impairments to ensure they received the educational services they needed. He worked with Simon to devise intelligence tests, the first of which was introduced in 1905, known as the Binet-Simon Scale.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1927, Dr. J. Munry of Christian College developed verbal group tests of intelligence in Urdu, Hindi, and English. In 1934, Mahalanobis in the Indian Statistical Institute of Kolkata started group intelligence testing in Bengali (Mukherjee, 1993).