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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. "[T]he child represents a ____________ adult ancestor."
(a) younger
(b) primitive
(c) comparable
(d) unique

2. The field of ________ sciences was redefined during the 19th century.
(a) life
(b) skeletal
(c) mental
(d) health

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

4. ______________ is a way of measuring the relationship between variables.
(a) Correlation
(b) Ranking
(c) A square ratio
(d) Comparison

5. "G" was considered to be _________.
(a) gender based
(b) cultural
(c) racial
(d) inherited

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What big theory was just becoming popular in the nineteenth century?

4. Where did Alfred Binet study human intelligence and how to measure it?

5. "Mental testing becomes a theory for enhancing ___________ through proper education."

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did Binet find when he went to various schools to test out Broca's theory of head measurement?

6. Define the idea of correlation.

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

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

9. What were the problems of Burt's studies?

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

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