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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Real Error of Cyril Burt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Burt's sample increased, his correlation between pairs for IQ _________.
(a) increased
(b) remained unchanged
(c) was scattered on the graphs
(d) decreased

2. On what did Bean gather information?
(a) Shoe size
(b) Family intelligence
(c) Social status
(d) Corpus callosum

3. Where did Alfred Binet study human intelligence and how to measure it?
(a) Harvard
(b) Louvre
(c) Sorbonne
(d) MIT

4. What does Socrates feel will happen when all people are intelligent?
(a) Society will stop changing.
(b) Society will become revolutionary.
(c) Society will become enlightened.
(d) Society will remain stable.

5. What means there is some sort of ordering that is used in assigning individuals to their relevant spot?
(a) Scientific study
(b) Theoretic discourse
(c) Ranking
(d) Biology

Short Answer Questions

1. What outside factors are being alluded to in #151?

2. If inferiority is cultural, then it can be changed by __________ factors

3. "The __________ of inferior groups must be like __________ of superior groups..."

4. Havelock Ellis was a scientist who claimed the superiority of __________ during this period.

5. The German psychologist W. Stern argued that mental age should be ____________ by chronological age.

(see the answer key)

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