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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. Bolk felt what race was not only the most progressive, but also the most retarded?
(a) Indian
(b) White
(c) Black
(d) He didn't say this.

2. 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

3. Binet spend a lot of time measuring skulls to see the correlation between size and intelligence, like Broca claimed, but his findings did not correlate with the __________ designation of smart and dumb.
(a) data's
(b) teacher's
(c) Broca's
(d) government's

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

5. Members of the inferior group were always compared with ________ children.
(a) white
(b) Indian
(c) black
(d) young

Short Answer Questions

1. Gould thought that Eysenck's arguments were the result of __________ correlations.

2. According to Lombroso, the genes of the past are contained in the hereditary of the individual and the ___________ surfaces at times.

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

4. What technique did Burt say he developed, although it was really Charles Spearman who created this technique?

5. What outside factors are being alluded to in #151?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Ellis find happened to men who were living in urban areas?

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

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

7. What did Louis Bolk have to say about whites and blacks?

8. What were the three rules Binet set up to help prevent the misuse of his test?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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