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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eysenck noticed that the average ________ of whites exceeds that of blacks.
(a) eye color
(b) height
(c) hair length
(d) IQ

2. "The __________ of inferior groups must be like __________ of superior groups..."
(a) adults, adults
(b) children, adults
(c) adults, children
(d) children, children

3. "An anatomical theory for ranking __________ - based on entire bodies, not only on heads, - had been found."
(a) races
(b) ages
(c) students
(d) genders

4. Burt seemed to have increased his sample of patients from fewer then 20 to more than ________ in a number of publications. This irregularity began the undoing of his work's findings.
(a) 150
(b) 1000
(c) 50
(d) 100

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

6. Factor analysis is a _______ method technique.
(a) algebraic
(b) calculus
(c) variable
(d) correlation

7. Havelock Ellis was a scientist who claimed the superiority of __________ during this period.
(a) women
(b) men
(c) elderly people
(d) children

8. What outside factors are being alluded to in #151?
(a) Physical
(b) Mental
(c) Environmental
(d) Sociological

9. Which label could also live independently and reproduce and be a threat to racial health?
(a) Idiots
(b) Imbeciles
(c) Morons
(d) Debiles

10. Negative correlation is given by vectors going in ____________ directions.
(a) curved
(b) the same
(c) straight
(d) opposite

11. Sir Cyril Burt was a medical tester who studied ___________.
(a) blacks
(b) white adults
(c) twins
(d) idiots

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

13. "[T]he child represents a ____________ adult ancestor."
(a) primitive
(b) younger
(c) unique
(d) comparable

14. Louis Bolk felt blacks were not totally ___________.
(a) necessary
(b) useful
(c) pointless
(d) inept

15. The principal components approach allowed Burt to identify _________ factors.
(a) multi-variate
(b) G
(c) basic
(d) group

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Spearman found that intelligence is a ____________ thing.

3. "______________ proved an irresistible criterion for any scientist who wanted to rank human groups as higher or lower."

4. "G" was considered to be _________.

5. Spearman also found there is a _______ substrate for intelligence except that this can be affected by outside factors.

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