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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. Eysenck believed the _____________ development of black youngsters develops more quickly than in whites.
(a) motor
(b) tactile
(c) sensory motor
(d) physical

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. 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) Idiots
(c) Imbeciles
(d) Morons

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

5. Intelligence, according to Goddard, came from ________ and nothing else.
(a) books
(b) family lines
(c) race
(d) school

Short Answer Questions

1. Binet believed that not all intelligence was ___________.

2. What technique is explained in terms of geometry and matrix algebra?

3. Where was Leon Kamin, the researcher who discovered Burt's flaws, a psychologist at?

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

5. The principal components approach allowed Burt to identify _________ factors.

Short Essay Questions

1. Was factor analysis the right technique to use in intelligence testing?

2. What did Gould feel about Eysenck's arguments for black inferiority?

3. Who was Sir Cyril Burt?

4. What did Burt try to claim he had developed, though it was later shown to be a false claim?

5. What do correlations not imply in regards to the studies in which they are used?

6. Define the idea of correlation.

7. What does the factor analysis variable 'g' stand for?

8. What were the three facts upon which H.J. Eysenck based his theory of the inferiority of blacks?

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

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

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