biography
pronunciation:
[weksler]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1896–1981)
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| biography:
| Psychologist, born in Lespedi, Romania. He studied at the City College of New York and Columbia University (1925), and went on to serve as chief psychologist at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital (1932–67). He developed the Wechsler–Bellevue Intelligence Scale (1939), devised for testing adult intelligence, and later adapted for children. The tests have been widely used and periodically revised. |
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