ABSTRACT
B i n e t ’ s v i e w of thinking, described in Chapter Seven, needs to be flanked by four main trends in psychological inquiry for its full significance to be grasped: (i) experimental studies of thinking carried out by his contemporaries, the Wiirzburgers; (2) contemporary and later views on intelligence and its assessment, in particular those of Spearman, Thurstone, Vernon, Hebb and Piaget; (3) the attack on associationism (from a different angle) that developed into Gestalt psycho logy; and (4) the behaviouristic approaches to thinking that arose from the ashes of introspective accounts. Volumes have been, and still could be, written on these main trends. It is quite outside the scope of this chapter and the next to do more than suggest how different strands of this changing pattern might be related to each other in the light of the general posi tion Binet sketched.
