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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Binet tried to devise a system of testing that would distinguish between the ____________ intelligence and the learned intelligence.
(a) natural
(b) basic
(c) female
(d) male

2. A perfect correlation graph between two variables would show ________________.
(a) overlapping vectors
(b) up and down lines
(c) shaded areas in the corners
(d) one line

3. Burt's papers and data were ____________, which seems to be when his falsifications began.
(a) archived
(b) moved
(c) destroyed
(d) assembled into books

4. The answer to #142 indicates how much of a change there is in one variable due to a change in __________.
(a) the numbers
(b) another variable
(c) the weather
(d) the environment

5. E.D. Cope based his theory in #92 on the idea that the ____________ brought on earlier maturation.
(a) cooler climate
(b) lack of sun
(c) many wartimes
(d) warmer climate

6. It was discovered that there was no general _________ of intelligence as Spearman once thought.
(a) ranking
(b) vector
(c) coefficient
(d) variable

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

8. Sir Cyril Burt was a medical tester who studied ___________.
(a) white adults
(b) blacks
(c) twins
(d) idiots

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

10. According to Lombroso, the genes of the past are contained in the hereditary of the individual and the ___________ surfaces at times.
(a) playfulness
(b) behavior
(c) shyness
(d) aggression towards women

11. Binet was commissioned in 1904 to find a way to identify children who ______________.
(a) were unteachable
(b) were bad at math
(c) needed special help in school
(d) were autistic

12. What does 'g' stand for in a graph for factor analysis?
(a) Graphing
(b) Generalization
(c) General intelligence
(d) Good intelligence

13. What technique did Burt say he developed, although it was really Charles Spearman who created this technique?
(a) Statistical analysis
(b) Factor counting
(c) Algebraic formulation
(d) Factor analysis

14. The answer to #93 caused a slowdown in ____________, leading to inferiority.
(a) sexual characteristics
(b) hair coloring
(c) skin coloring
(d) development

15. Burt seemed to have increased his sample of patients from fewer then 20 to more than ________ in a number of publications. This irregularity began the undoing of his work's findings.
(a) 50
(b) 150
(c) 1000
(d) 100

Short Answer Questions

1. Eysenck believed the _____________ development of black youngsters develops more quickly than in whites.

2. Binet also noticed differences between the figures collected by himself and by his student, ___________.

3. "s" was considered the product of _________ by both Spearman and Burt.

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

5. Cesare Lombroso thought that ____________ behavior is hereditary.

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