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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. Cesare Lombroso thought that ____________ behavior is hereditary.
(a) criminal
(b) sexual
(c) political
(d) social

2. Negative correlation is given by vectors going in ____________ directions.
(a) straight
(b) the same
(c) opposite
(d) curved

3. Socrates' friend does not believe his ideas, saying that it is a lie and that ________ generations won't believe it, but ________ generations might.
(a) future, present
(b) present, future
(c) poor, rich
(d) common, enlightened

4. "Plato relied upon dialectic, the Church upon __________."
(a) dogma
(b) leaders
(c) God
(d) faith

5. "______________ proved an irresistible criterion for any scientist who wanted to rank human groups as higher or lower."
(a) Creationism
(b) Evolution
(c) Determinism
(d) Recapitulation

Short Answer Questions

1. Eysenck thought that those with ______ rapidly developing skills (as mentioned in #100) also had lower IQ scores.

2. Spearman found that intelligence is a ____________ thing.

3. The general intellectual knowledge of the child was calculated by subtracting the ________ age from his true chronological age.

4. When did craniometry first appear in the study of intelligence?

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

(see the answer key)

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