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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Goddard was trying to develop a _____________ scale to measure intelligence.
(a) unilinear
(b) non-linear
(c) linear
(d) multi-linear

2. A perfect correlation graph between two variables would show ________________.
(a) overlapping vectors
(b) up and down lines
(c) one line
(d) shaded areas in the corners

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

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

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

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

7. According to Lombroso, the genes of the past are contained in the hereditary of the individual and the ___________ surfaces at times.
(a) playfulness
(b) shyness
(c) aggression towards women
(d) behavior

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

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

10. Havelock found that _________ males were more effeminate.
(a) rrban
(b) craftsworking
(c) older
(d) rural

11. What was the nationality of H. J. Eysenck?
(a) British
(b) Swiss
(c) Swedish
(d) German

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

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

14. Binet believed that not all intelligence was ___________.
(a) necessary
(b) allowed
(c) the same
(d) inborn

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What kinds of measures did Binet turn his attention to when he realized skull measuring wasn't effective?

4. The answer to #93 caused a slowdown in ____________, leading to inferiority.

5. One of the perceived problems of Lombroso's theory was the need to call _________ criminals.

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