One of the odd twists in the history of psychology is that Binet and Simon's test started out as a way to measure____________, but was adapted by others into a measure of ________________
A) academic achievement; innate intelligence
B) innate intelligence; academic achievement
C) chronological age; mental age
D) mental age; chronological age
Answer: A
Rationale: Binet had viewed his original test as a measure of achievement, not as a measure of an innate capacity. Nonetheless, the Stanford-Binet test, an adapted version of the original test, quickly came to be used as a measure of innate intelligence.
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