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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. It was discovered that there was no general _________ of intelligence as Spearman once thought.
(a) vector
(b) coefficient
(c) variable
(d) ranking

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Eysenck noticed that the average ________ of whites exceeds that of blacks.

2. Havelock found that _________ males were more effeminate.

3. What does 'g' stand for in a graph for factor analysis?

4. The general intellectual knowledge of the child was calculated by subtracting the ________ age from his true chronological age.

5. Binet also noticed differences between the figures collected by himself and by his student, ___________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Binet was also trying to create a test that distinguished between what?

2. What was Binet's major worry about the work he was doing with intelligence testing?

3. What did Binet's study of intelligence begin to rely on as opposed to medical measures of intelligence?

4. Define the idea of correlation.

5. What does Cesare Lombroso have to say about criminal behavior?

6. What did Binet do in order to fulfill the obligations of his commission in 1904?

7. What did E.D. Cope believe affected the value of a person and the determination of their inferiority?

8. Define the idea of recapitulation.

9. Who was Sir Cyril Burt?

10. Where did Alfred Binet first begin his study of human intelligence?

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