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Binet-Simon scale

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Bi·net-Si·mon scale  (b-ns-m, -smn)
n.
An evaluation of the relative mental development of children by a series of psychological tests of intellectual ability. Also called Binet scale, Binet-Simon test, Binet test.

[After Alfred Binet (1857-1911) and Théodore Simon (1873-1961), French psychologists.]

Binet-Simon scale [ˈbiːneɪˈsaɪmən]
n
(Psychology) Psychol a test comprising questions and tasks, used to determine the mental age of subjects, usually children Also called Binet scale, test See also Stanford-Binet test
[named after Alfred Binet (1857-1911) + Théodore Simon (1873-1961), French psychologists]
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Noun1.Binet-Simon Scale - the first intelligence test
intelligence test, IQ test - a psychometric test of intelligence; "they used to think that intelligence is what an intelligence test tests"


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The Binet-Simon Scale had thirty tasks, beginning from the most simple, such as having a child follow a lit match with her eyes, to more difficult tasks of copying patterns, naming objects, having the child form sentences from provided words, repeating phrases and figures in sequence and answering questions such as "My neighbor has been receiving strange visitors.
Terman completed his American revision of the 1908 Binet-Simon scale.
 
 
 
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