Abstract
Binet created the psychology of mental deficiency and incidentally the concept of intelligence which for many years has been a central issue in both psychology and education. He was primarily concerned with learning difficulties in children and it is a wry paradox that his development of the notion of intelligence has proved such a barrier to the study of the learning process. Intelligence for Binet was a summary term which stood in place of all the component elements of learning weakness which he noticed and assessed. His successors such as Spearman (1923), Burt (1937), Vernon (1950) and Jensen (1975) tend to use the term in an explanatory fashion although it is doubtful whether ‘intelligence’ explains ‘mental age’ or ‘mental deficiency’ except as a descriptive cross-reference.
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health
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