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Alfred Binet: French Academy
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French psychologist Alfred Binet (1859-1911) took a different tack than most psychologists of his day: he was interested in the workings of the normal mind rather than the pathology of mental illness. He wanted to find a way to measure the ability to think and reason, apart from education in any particular field.
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At age thirty Binet completed a paper that stressed the importance of studying the normal individual before studying persons with serious emotional problems. The paper, which received a substantial monetary award from the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, was cited for the demonstration of Binet's competence as an observer and his knowledge of the experimental method. The award committee concluded that Binet had a "gifted and uncommon mind" (Wolf, p. 6).
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One of Binet’s earliest awards, Binet was honored by the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences as lauréat. Accompanying this award was a prize of 1000 francs, a sum that apparently amounted to real money in those days (Moulding, 2001).
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In 1884, Binet married Laure Balbiani. He had two daughters, Madeleine and Alice, which true to the form of early explorers of the human mind, became his experimental subjects. In 1887, he was honored by French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences as Laureat, with a prize of 1000 francs, a sizeable amount in those days.
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