CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lewis Terman, in full Lewis Madison Terman, (born January 15, 1877, Johnson county, Indiana, U.S.-died December 21, 1956, Palo Alto, California), American psychologist who published the individual intelligence test widely used in the United States, the Stanford-Binet test.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first IQ tests 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-3: -Lewis Terman was an educational psychologist at Stanford university who developed an intelligence test (later known as the Stanford-Binet IQ test), which he described in his 1916 book.

Detailed explanation-4: -Terman came to believe that IQ was, in addition to dependent on education, highly heritable. Terman was a member of numerous American eugenic organizations, and listed in their rosters as a leader.