Where+Does+the+IQ+came+from?

=Human Intelligence= By: Alejandra Mora

Where does the IQ came from?
The IQ is a series of numbers used to determine and express the general intellig ﻿ ence of an individual in relation to other people with the same age. It was originally computer by taking the ratio of mental age to chronological age, physical age and multiplies by 100. The first IQ was developed by Albert Binet and his collaborators in France. It started because a minister mad e a test to educate mentally retarded children. ** Albert Binet Biography ** Albert Binet was a French psychologist born in July 8, 1857 and died in October 18, 1911. He studied in Charcot. He received his law degree in 1878 and he self- taught psychology. He was a researcher and associate director of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology on Sorbonne University in 1891 to 1894. = ** Definition of intelligence ** = "It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment" (Binet & Simon, 1916, 1973, pp.42-43). =Projects =
 * Albert Binet with the help of [|Theodore Simone]created the Binet-Simone Scale. They compare a variety of tasks they thought were the typical children´s activities at various ages. They observed this task-selection through years in natural selections. They then tested their measurement on a sample of fifty children, ten children per five age groups. The children selected for their study were identified by their school teachers as being average for their age. The purpose of this scale of normal functioning,was to compare children's mental abilities relative to those of their normal peers. || [[image:http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTVLHTsAOxzs5RWGdMkGbrLAyKbxWbTHI2mbWGW_xx7hd2vdRku width="316" height="169" caption="external image images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTVLHTsAOxzs5RWGdMkGbrLAyKbxWbTHI2mbWGW_xx7hd2vdRku"]] ||

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