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Alfred Binet's most significant contribution to the field of child psychology was the development of the first intelligence test.
Alfred Binet was born Alfredo Binetti in Nice, France, on July 8, 1857. His father, a physician, and his mother, an artist, divorced when he was young, and Binet then moved to Paris with his mother. He received a law degree in 1878 but became interested in psychology in 1880.
Binet did not receive any formal graduate training in psychology. His first appointment was in a French laboratory, the Salêptrière, conducting research on hypnosis under the supervision of Jean Charcot. In 1890 Binet rejected Charcot's theories and began research on cognition at the Sorbonne's Laboratory of Physiological Psychology. In 1894 Binet became laboratory director, where he worked until he died in 1911.
The unifying theme of Binet's research was examining individual differences and similarities in cognition. Binet studied a range of populations, including children, mental hospital patients, and professional artists. His research topics were also wide-ranging, including studies of consciousness, sensation, creativity, language development, memory development, and mental fatigue.
Binet had done a series of experiments to see how well chess players played when blindfolded. He found that only some master chess players could play from memory, and a few could play multiple games simultaneously without looking at the boards.
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