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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. What is the study of measuring the human head in order to assess intelligence called?
(a) Neurology
(b) Cranial-sacral therapy
(c) Craniometry
(d) Psychology

2. Who was a 19th century anatomist who believed in the theory of polygenism?
(a) Gould
(b) Serres
(c) Broca
(d) Blumenbach

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

4. What big theory was just becoming popular in the nineteenth century?
(a) Evolution
(b) Creationism
(c) Revolution
(d) Equality

5. 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) teacher's
(b) Broca's
(c) data's
(d) government's

Short Answer Questions

1. The principal components approach allowed Burt to identify _________ factors.

2. Bolk felt what race was not only the most progressive, but also the most retarded?

3. "______________ proved an irresistible criterion for any scientist who wanted to rank human groups as higher or lower."

4. Who was the skull collector that had more than one thousand different skulls?

5. The German psychologist W. Stern argued that mental age should be ____________ by chronological age.

(see the answer key)

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