The Mismeasure of Man Quiz Questions | Quiz: The Hereditarian Theory of IQ

Quiz: The Hereditarian Theory of IQ

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. The German psychologist W. Stern argued that mental age should be ____________ by chronological age.
a) subtracted
b) added to
c) divided
d) multiplied

2. What kinds of measures did Binet turn his attention to when he realized skull measuring wasn't effective?
a) Fingers and toes
b) Psychological
c) Foot
d) Spiritual

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) government's
d) Broca's

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