View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who considered that other factors like general health and body size might also affect brain size?
(a) Gratiolet
(b) Blumenbach
(c) Broca
(d) Franklin

2. Which race was ranked last in the eyes of the practitioners of racial ranking?
(a) Chinese
(b) Whites
(c) Indians
(d) Blacks

3. What does Socrates feel will happen when all people are intelligent?
(a) Society will become revolutionary.
(b) Society will become enlightened.
(c) Society will remain stable.
(d) Society will stop changing.

4. Factor analysis is a _______ method technique.
(a) variable
(b) algebraic
(c) calculus
(d) correlation

5. Gould says the claims of inferiority are limited to ____________ even thought race, sex, and social class are tied together.
(a) one group
(b) one setting
(c) one scientist
(d) one study

Short Answer Questions

1. Binet believed that not all intelligence was ___________.

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

3. Negative correlation is given by vectors going in ____________ directions.

4. The author of "An American Dilemma" says that Americans and others would only consider the __________ factors when they were forced to.

5. Which label could also live independently and reproduce and be a threat to racial health?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 187 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample