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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The answer to #114 became a way to measure the ___________ of the children, and thus their IQ levels.
(a) intelligence
(b) mental capacity
(c) age level
(d) adaptability

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Louis Bolk felt blacks were not totally ___________.
(a) necessary
(b) inept
(c) pointless
(d) useful

9. Eysenck noticed that the average ________ of whites exceeds that of blacks.
(a) height
(b) hair length
(c) eye color
(d) IQ

10. Factor analysis was the _________ technique to be used in intelligence testing, even thought Burt went about it the wrong way.
(a) worst
(b) only
(c) easiest
(d) best

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

12. Members of the inferior group were always compared with ________ children.
(a) young
(b) black
(c) white
(d) Indian

13. Unlike Binet, Goddard used __________ to label and to categorize.
(a) images
(b) colors
(c) labels
(d) shapes

14. The general intellectual knowledge of the child was calculated by subtracting the ________ age from his true chronological age.
(a) mental
(b) assumed
(c) school
(d) head size

15. E.D. Cope thought that _______ Europeans were inferior to others.
(a) Western
(b) Eastern
(c) Northern
(d) Southern

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. Goddard believed the mental deficients should be prevented from ____________.

4. According to Lombroso, the genes of the past are contained in the hereditary of the individual and the ___________ surfaces at times.

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

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