View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sir Cyril Burt was a medical tester who studied ___________.

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

3. Unlike Binet, Goddard used __________ to label and to categorize.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Havelock Ellis' major claim in his study of the measurement of bodies in order to determine value?

2. Define the idea of correlation.

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

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

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

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

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

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. Define the idea of recapitulation.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What's interesting is the Binet seems to be the one scientist who is concerned about how his findings would be used in everyday life and for everyday people.

Part 1: What was Binet worried about in regards to the tests he administered?

Part 2: What were the three rules Binet devised in order to ensure his test would not be misused?

Part 3: What did Binet suggest young children with learning issues might need?

Essay Topic 2

The idea that criminal behavior is hereditary is another idea that springs up during the introduction of evolution. The notion that criminal tendencies could spring up in the genes and then in the behaviors was widely accepted.

Part 1: Who was the main researcher of this idea of criminal behavior based on hereditary patterns?

Part 2: What were the weaknesses of this researcher's studies?

Part 3: What was the theory of atavism and what did it mean to society?

Essay Topic 3

Recapitulation is an idea that seems to allow for the ranking of people from high to low. This idea is one of the many that sprang up in the nineteenth century, and Gould is quick to point out the main issues.

Part 1: How is recapitulation defined?

Part 2: What did this theory provide that other scientific theories did not?

Part 3: How were adults and children used in the scientific theory of recapitulation?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 631 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample