Measuring ideation in the 1900s : The contribution of Alfred Binet
(2019) The creativity reader — ISBN: [9780190841706], p. 111-126, published
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- Prior to formulating his famous test battery for the measurement of intelligence, Binet was a fine observer of imaginative processes and one of the pioneers of its experimental study in the context of thorough case-by-case observation (idiographic approach), through which he was able to formalize an incredibly accurate description of the phenomenon. This chapter presents and discusses two texts of the "pre Binet-Simon era" that reflect Binet's early operationalization of one of the key thinking processes involved in imagination and creativity, namely, ideation. After contextualizing these texts and discussing how they are greatly compatible with current views of the construct of ideation, we highlight how his approach of the time, decidedly clinical and idiographic, could inspire important future lines of work in the field. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
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Barbot, B., & Guignard, J.-H. (2019). Measuring ideation in the 1900s : The contribution of Alfred Binet. In Vlad Petre Glaveanu (ed.) (ed.), The creativity reader (p. p. 111-126). Oxford University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/266595