The Intelligence Of The Feeble Minded: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Intelligence Of The Feeble Minded, credited to Alfred Binet; Théodore Simon, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Intelligence Of The Feeble Minded by Alfred Binet; Théodore Simon. (Translated by Elizabeth Kite.) Read in English by Leon Harvey. Nowhere does Binet's genius show more brilliantly than in this work. That he in the midst of a busy life and in addition to all his other work could have acquired so great a knowledge of mental defectives is amazing; the more so when we realize that it was first-hand knowledge gained from observation backed by keen perception, that perception that enabled him to see the truth with a quickness that makes the rest of us, still groping in the dark, question if it was truth Binet saw. But that it was truth we are learning every day. - Summary by Henry H. Goddard

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Intelligence Of The Feeble Minded
• Author credits: Alfred Binet; Théodore Simon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 10:47:03

Catalogue topics

• idiot
• dementia
• mental illness
• psychological testing
• imbecile
• brain damage
• care home
• comparative intelligence

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 00 - Introduction. Preliminaries — 10:25
2. 01 - I. Character-The Rebellious and the Docile — 24:09
3. 02 - II. Attention from the Point of View of its Concentration — 12:28
4. 03 - III. Voluntary Effort — 25:36
5. 04 - IV. Movements in Writing — 8:00
6. 05 - V. Intelligence and Perception — 16:55
7. 06 - VI. The Sense of Pain — 13:44
8. 07 - VII. Association of Ideas in the Feeble-Minded — 18:42
9. 08 - VIII. Activity of the Intelligence Distinguished from the Level of the Intelligence — 22:42
10. 09 - IX. The Number Sense and the Arithmetrical Faculty — 20:02
11. 10 - X. Reasoning — 18:52
12. 11 - XI. Suggestibility through Docility — 28:14
13. 12 - XII. How a Moron may have an Esprit Faux — 19:48
14. 13 - XIII. A Scheme of Thought — 1:00:37
15. 14 - PART II. THE LANGUAGE OF THE FEEBLE MINDED. I. A New Psychogenetic Method — 6:53
16. 15 - II. Aphasia and the Psychology of Language — 4:35
17. 16 - III. An Observation of an Imbecile. Scientific Determination of her Level — 13:22
18. 17 - IV. Analysis of the State of Langauge of this Imbecile. — 15:51
19. 18 - V. Discussion of Three Hypotheses upon hte Absence of Speech in our Subject — 8:21
20. 19 - VI. The Psychological Condition of Speech. Experiments and Theory — 16:16
21. 20 - VII. Comparison between Aphasia properly so-called and the Poverty of Language of the Low Grade Imbecile — 12:30
22. 21 - VIII. The Function of Language as a Sign of Human Intelligence — 10:10
23. 22 - IX. The Evolution of Language — 25:25
24. 23 - X. The Relation between Langauge and Thought — 15:52

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