LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Alfred Binet: Ages
built 198 days ago
For the practical use of determining educational placement, the score on the Binet-Simon scale would reveal the child's mental age. For example, a 6 year-old child who passed all the tasks usually passed by 6 year-olds--but nothing beyond--would have a mental age that exactly matched his chronological age, 6.0. (Fancher, 1985).
Source:
In 1891, Binet accidentally met Dr. Henri Beaunis on a railway platform, and asked him for a job at the Sorbonne. After some heated arguments on hypnosis, Dr. Beaunis agreed to give him some work at the research laboratory at Sorbonne. Binet was hardworking and his productivity during this period was quite admirable. By 1894, he became the director of the laboratory.
Source:
By 1890 Binet had broken off his connection with the Salpêtrière, and was embarking on a study of cognitive processes, using his daughters as subjects. Curiously enough, although the age difference between them made developmental differences quite clear, Binet never thought to take that observation further. That would have to wait for Jean Piaget (1896-1980).
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Ages