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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Goddard was trying to develop a _____________ scale to measure intelligence.
(a) unilinear
(b) multi-linear
(c) non-linear
(d) linear

2. The German psychologist W. Stern argued that mental age should be ____________ by chronological age.
(a) divided
(b) subtracted
(c) multiplied
(d) added to

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

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

5. Binet was worried, however, that his testing might cause the child to be ___________ in school.
(a) made fun of
(b) an outcast
(c) separated from others
(d) labeled

6. Who did Goddard classify was having a mental age below 3?
(a) Morons
(b) Idiots
(c) Debiles
(d) Imbeciles

7. When Burt's sample increased, his correlation between pairs for IQ _________.
(a) remained unchanged
(b) decreased
(c) was scattered on the graphs
(d) increased

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

9. No matter how strong a correlation is, it says nothing about _________.
(a) intelligence
(b) cause
(c) race
(d) plausibility

10. How many reasons did Burt feel could be used for discounting the effects of environment?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 1

11. "[T]he child represents a ____________ adult ancestor."
(a) unique
(b) younger
(c) comparable
(d) primitive

12. Havelock found that _________ males were more effeminate.
(a) rrban
(b) older
(c) craftsworking
(d) rural

13. What was Lombroso's theory known as?
(a) Atavism
(b) Alavism
(c) Criminalism
(d) Artavism

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

15. Bolk felt what race was not only the most progressive, but also the most retarded?
(a) Indian
(b) White
(c) He didn't say this.
(d) Black

Short Answer Questions

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

2. E.D. Cope based his theory in #92 on the idea that the ____________ brought on earlier maturation.

3. ______________ is a way of measuring the relationship between variables.

4. It was discovered that there was no general _________ of intelligence as Spearman once thought.

5. Who had a mental age between 3 and 7?

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