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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. According to Gould, Broca's studies were __________ by his choice of what to observe to provide that white brains were larger than black brains.
(a) biased
(b) complete
(c) truthful
(d) faulty

2. Where was Leon Kamin, the researcher who discovered Burt's flaws, a psychologist at?
(a) Princeton
(b) Brown
(c) Yale
(d) Harvard

3. The answer to #142 indicates how much of a change there is in one variable due to a change in __________.
(a) another variable
(b) the environment
(c) the weather
(d) the numbers

4. E.D. Cope thought that _______ Europeans were inferior to others.
(a) Eastern
(b) Western
(c) Southern
(d) Northern

5. The German psychologist W. Stern argued that mental age should be ____________ by chronological age.
(a) added to
(b) multiplied
(c) divided
(d) subtracted

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had a mental age between 3 and 7?

2. Which view was based on the story of Adam and Eve?

3. What kinds of weaknesses is Gould looking to find in the arguments of other scientists presented in this book?

4. It was discovered that there was no general _________ of intelligence as Spearman once thought.

5. No matter how strong a correlation is, it says nothing about _________.

(see the answer key)

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