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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "s" was considered the product of _________ by both Spearman and Burt.
(a) imagination
(b) opportunity
(c) training
(d) understanding

2. What did Binet devise in order to help test the school children?
(a) A series of tasks
(b) A set of math problems
(c) A picture book
(d) Story problems

3. Cesare Lombroso thought that ____________ behavior is hereditary.
(a) political
(b) criminal
(c) sexual
(d) social

4. In a factor analysis graph, the two vectors lie ___________.
(a) close to each other
(b) away from each other
(c) on opposite sides of the graph
(d) One on top of the other

5. Who did Goddard classify was having a mental age below 3?
(a) Idiots
(b) Imbeciles
(c) Morons
(d) Debiles

6. "G" was considered to be _________.
(a) racial
(b) gender based
(c) inherited
(d) cultural

7. Spearman also found there is a _______ substrate for intelligence except that this can be affected by outside factors.
(a) mental
(b) imaginary
(c) concept
(d) physical

8. What kinds of measures did Binet turn his attention to when he realized skull measuring wasn't effective?
(a) Foot
(b) Spiritual
(c) Psychological
(d) Fingers and toes

9. E.D. Cope based his theory in #92 on the idea that the ____________ brought on earlier maturation.
(a) warmer climate
(b) lack of sun
(c) cooler climate
(d) many wartimes

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

11. No matter how strong a correlation is, it says nothing about _________.
(a) intelligence
(b) plausibility
(c) cause
(d) race

12. What group of students/people, as discovered by their intelligence level in response to Binet's test, was most dangerous and trainable?
(a) Morons
(b) Idiots
(c) Retards
(d) Imbeciles

13. Eysenck thought that those with ______ rapidly developing skills (as mentioned in #100) also had lower IQ scores.
(a) very
(b) more
(c) less
(d) fewer

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

15. Unlike Binet, Goddard used __________ to label and to categorize.
(a) shapes
(b) labels
(c) colors
(d) images

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gould thought that Eysenck's arguments were the result of __________ correlations.

3. Burt's papers and data were ____________, which seems to be when his falsifications began.

4. ______________ is a way of measuring the relationship between variables.

5. Members of the inferior group were always compared with ________ children.

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