Essays on Binet

Introduction

Emotional Intelligence (EI) as a concept has struck root since the middle of the 1990s. It was adopted by the management world though it has its base in psychology. It became popular as a trait that every leader ought to possess if he were to lead a team. It surpassed the existing notion that Intelligence Quotient (IQ) was sufficient to succeed in an organizational setting. The practical use of EI leads to better decisions by both individuals and groups (Hess & Bacigalupo, 2011). This essay introduces the concept of EI with examples and differentiates EQ from IQ. It dwells on ...

While Lightner Witmer has been largely credited with the conceptualization and creation of a separate field of study for school psychology (D’Amato et al., 2011), it has it’s true roots, in many ways, in the creation of the IQ test. The IQ test was pioneered by Alfred Binet who was specifically interested in the standards of the normal mind. Today, the Binet-Simon scale, first generated in 1905, is still used in schools to determine a child’s overall ability to perform certain tasks (Binet & Simon, 1905). Perhaps more significantly, however, it was significant that Binet recognized that ...

In research conducted by Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky (1993), the result of listening to music composed by the musician Mozart was an short-term improvement in tasks associated with spatial-temporal reasoning. The researchers hypothesized that higher brain functions correlate with music cognition. Dubbed the “Mozart Effect” by Dr. Alfred Tomatis, subsequent experiments differed on whether the influence is significant. While some studies support the proposed impact (Ivanov & Geake, 2003; Rauscher, Robinson, and Jens, 1998; Rideout & Laubach, 1996), others do not (Chabris, 1999; Mehr, Schachner, Katz, & Spelke, 2013; Steele, Bass, & Crook, 1999). This paper is an analysis of the research by ...