关于人的智慧为内容的文章

The study of human intelligence is perhaps the most controversial area in psychology. At the same time, psychometric assessment of intelligence is a flourishing enterprise and a prominent aspect of applied psychology.

Alfred Binet launched the field of psychological testing. He was asked by the French minister of public education to develop a test that could be used to identify children who would have difficulty in school so that they could be given special instruction. The Stanford-Binet intelligence scale which is still in use today was developed in 1916 when Lewis Terman, a psychologist from Stanford university, translated into English and revised the tasks created by Binet and his collaborator Theodore Simon in 1904.

The most commonly used IQ tests for adults and children were developed by David Wechsler (1896-1981). Building on Binet?s pioneering work the Wechsler scales came to embody the psychometric assessment of intelligence. The Stanford-Binet and t