<P> Henry Herbert Goddard ( August 14 , 1866 -- June 18 , 1957 ) was a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist during the early 20th century . He is known especially for his 1912 work The Kallikak Family : A Study in the Heredity of Feeble - Mindedness , which he himself came to regard as flawed , and for being the first to translate the Binet intelligence test into English in 1908 and distributing an estimated 22,000 copies of the translated test across the United States . He also introduced the term `` moron '' for clinical use . </P>
<P> Henry Herbert Goddard ( August 14 , 1866 -- June 18 , 1957 ) was a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist during the early 20th century . He is known especially for his 1912 work The Kallikak Family : A Study in the Heredity of Feeble - Mindedness , which he himself came to regard as flawed , and for being the first to translate the Binet intelligence test into English in 1908 and distributing an estimated 22,000 copies of the translated test across the United States . He also introduced the term `` moron '' for clinical use . </P>
who is credited with bringing intelligence testing to the united states
who is credited with bringing intelligence testing to the united states
Henry Herbert Goddard
Henry Herbert Goddard