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What’s Your IQ?
French psychologist Alfred Binet collaborated with one of his students, Théodore Simon, to create a systematic assessment of intelligence. The materials pictured here come from Lewis Terman and Maude Merrill’s 1937 version of Binet and Simon’s test. Using these materials, the test administrator prompts the test taker with statements such as “Point to the doll’s foot,” or “What advantages does an airplane have over a car?” (Sattler, 1990).
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