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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Factor analysis was the _________ technique to be used in intelligence testing, even thought Burt went about it the wrong way.
(a) easiest
(b) only
(c) best
(d) worst

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

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

5. Binet was commissioned in 1904 to find a way to identify children who ______________.
(a) were bad at math
(b) needed special help in school
(c) were autistic
(d) were unteachable

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

7. "______________ proved an irresistible criterion for any scientist who wanted to rank human groups as higher or lower."
(a) Determinism
(b) Evolution
(c) Creationism
(d) Recapitulation

8. "Mental testing becomes a theory for enhancing ___________ through proper education."
(a) races
(b) potential
(c) excellence
(d) intelligence

9. 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) 1000
(b) 100
(c) 150
(d) 50

10. Binet tried to devise a system of testing that would distinguish between the ____________ intelligence and the learned intelligence.
(a) basic
(b) male
(c) female
(d) natural

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

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

13. ______________ is a way of measuring the relationship between variables.
(a) Correlation
(b) Ranking
(c) Comparison
(d) A square ratio

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

15. Gould felt that Eysenck's arguments are not based on ___________ facts.
(a) realistic
(b) measured
(c) racial
(d) statistical

Short Answer Questions

1. Cesare Lombroso thought that ____________ behavior is hereditary.

2. Intelligence, according to Goddard, came from ________ and nothing else.

3. When Burt's sample increased, his correlation between pairs for IQ _________.

4. In a factor analysis graph, the two vectors lie ___________.

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

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