French psychologist who influenced the measurement of abilities.
Alfred Binet was a French psychologist who established the first French psychology laboratory in 1889, and the first French psychology journal with Theodore Simon. He co-authored with Simon the Binet-Simon the Test of Intelligence.Alfred Binet was born in Nice, France on July 8, 1857. In 1883, he studied hypnosis with the pioneering neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpetrière Hospital in Paris. A year later, he married Laure Balbiani and the couple had two daughters. Six years later, he left Salpetrière Hospital to concentrate on studying his two daughters.
Francis Galton and Galtonian Approach
In the late 19th century, English scientist Sir Francis Galton made pioneering studies of individual differences in intelligence. He believed that people with good senses would be highly intelligent and that these individual differences in intelligence were also inherited. In his book Hereditary Genius, Galton argued that eminent fathers would raise eminent sons.