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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Real Error of Cyril Burt.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Gould, science must be viewed in its ________ context since culture and environment also influence facts and theories.
(a) ethnic
(b) social
(c) racial
(d) biological

3. The answer to #55 was known as a _________ because he looked for small differences between species.
(a) striker
(b) microcosm expert
(c) splitter
(d) species expert

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

5. Leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth century did not dispute __________.
(a) medical findings
(b) racial ranking
(c) scientific errors
(d) scientists in general

Short Answer Questions

1. Cesare Lombroso thought that ____________ behavior is hereditary.

2. What other kind of testing, besides head measurement, can begin to measure the intelligence of a person?

3. Flaws in the experimental design, according to Gould, do not lead to _________ in the numbers.

4. When Burt's sample increased, his correlation between pairs for IQ _________.

5. Motor functions are performed at the _________ of the brain.

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