CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
To assess mental age, Binet and Simon measured children’s
A
head size
B
reasoning skills
C
muscular power
D
neural processing speed
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

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: -In 1905, psychologists Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon designed a test for children who were struggling in school in France. Designed to determine which children required individualized attention, their method formed the basis of the modern IQ test.

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