Contributions to the History of Psychology: XLVI. The Pioneer Work of Alfred Binet on Children as Eyewitnesses

Cunningham, Jacqueline L.

doi:10.2466/pr0.1988.62.1.271

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“…A similar appraisal led Cunningham (1988) to devote an article to Binet's research on how suggestibility influences children's memory. Binet (1900) presented 7to 14-year-olds a poster with a number of objects and a depiction of a scene on it.…”

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“…Although THE OTHER ALFRED BINET I89 the particular answer advanced by the leader varied among the groups, few children challenged whatever answer the leader advanced, even when it was plainly wrong. Binet's comment on the implications of this finding: "Woe betide him who is alone" (Cunningham, 1988).…”

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“…Thieman and Brewer (1978) translated and analyzed an 1894 Binet and Henri article on memory and commented, "This study was the first major experimental investigation of memory for prose material, and yet is remarkably similar to recent research on sentence memory, both in terms of empirical findings and theoretical interpretations" (p. 245). Regarding Binet's work on suggestibility, Cunningham ( 1988) commented, "These conclusions made 90 years ago are mirrored in modern conceptualizations of the nature of children's suggestibility" (p. 271). Similar sentiments have been expressed by Simmel and Barron (1966) about the work on chess expertise, by Pollack and Brenner (1969) about the work on visual memory, and by Cairns (1983) about the methodological prin-ciples.…”

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Their act of memory is accompanied by an act of translation. They impose on the passage, which they force into their minds, the mark of their personality, they make it their own, they give it their perspective of thinking, they make it the passage of a child. This is a phenomenon one might give the name, comparable to that which occurs in nutrition, of verbal assimilation.The above statement seems unremarkable until one considers its source:Binet and Henri (1894, p. 52). Binet's use of the concept, the nutritional analogy, and even the term assimilation all predated Piaget's by more than three decades. And the example is not an isolated one. Binet's findings on prose memory, eyewitness testimony, group pressure toward conformity, intrinsic motivation, and expertise in chess and mental calculation all long preceded better known recent studies that have rediscovered the same phenomena. As Cairns (1983) commented, "It has taken experimental child psychology 70 years to catch up with some of Binet's insights on cognition and the organization of memory" (p. 47).

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“…When he found that the memory of these participants could be influenced by simple suggestions, Binet did not conduct his experiments in the psychological laboratory at the Sorbonne but in classrooms. He had child participants engaged in a series of experiments that helped establish a scientific foundation for the psychology of testimony (Loftus, 1979;Nicolas & Levine, 2012;Nicolas, Collins, Gounden, & Roediger, 2011b;Stern, 1939) and culminated in insightful observation on the phenomenon of social influence (Cunningham, 1988;Roediger, Meade, & Bergman, 2001). Ceci and Bruck's (1995) book on children's testimony had a nice discussion of Binet and his contributions at the time (see also Nicolas, Gounden, & Sanitioso, 2011a).…”

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Alfred Binet and experimental psychology at the Sorbonne laboratory.

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Sanitioso²

2012

History of Psychology

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Between 1892 and 1904, Alfred Binet (1857-1911) produced, in the psychology laboratory of the Sorbonne, a whole set of original works that still remains little known today. He integrated the laboratory, directed by the psychophysiologist Henry Beaunis (1830-1921), in 1891. We describe the circumstances that led Binet to take the direction of this laboratory in 1895 and present scientific investigations that were conducted there by Binet and his collaborators. For Binet, the laboratory was not narrowly limited to a set of rooms where experiments were conducted by means of sophisticated devices (experimental psychology), it was also a working area, regularly organized, where all the psychological documents were classified, whatever their origin (descriptive psychology). We show that Binet was a pioneer who is still little recognized in various areas of experimental psychology. Binet suffered, at the time, from the indifference of his contemporaries, but he especially regretted not being able to attract students to his laboratory due to the absence of diploma-offering programs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).

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“…For several months, he was able to study children and adolescents, and found that these participants' memories could be influenced by simple suggestions. Beginning with basic laboratory tasks (Binet & Henri, 1894b; for an English translation see Nicolas, Collins, Gounden, & Roediger, 2011a), Binet had child participants engage in a series of experiments that helped to establish a scientific foundation for a psychology of testimony (Loftus, 1979;Nicolas, Collins, Gounden, & Roediger, 2011b;Stern, 1939) and culminated in insightful observations on the phenomenon of social influence (Cunningham, 1988;Roediger, Meade, & Bergman, 2001). Ceci and Bruck's book (1995) on child testimony included a valuable discussion of Binet and his contributions.…”

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Nicolas¹,

Levine

2012

European Psychologist

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Though Alfred Binet was a prolific writer, many of his 1893–1903 works are not well known. This is partly due to a lack of English translations of the many important papers and books that he and his collaborators created during this period. Binet’s insights into intelligence testing are widely celebrated, but the centennial of his death provides an occasion to reexamine his other psychological examinations. His studies included many diverse aspects of mental life, including memory research and the science of testimony. Indeed, Binet was a pioneer of psychology and produced important research on cognitive and experimental psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, and applied psychology. This paper seeks to elucidate these aspects of his work.

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Contributions to the History of Psychology: XLVI. The Pioneer Work of Alfred Binet on Children as Eyewitnesses

Cited by 24 publications

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The other Alfred Binet.

The other Alfred Binet.

Alfred Binet and experimental psychology at the Sorbonne laboratory.

Beyond Intelligence Testing

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