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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) age level
(b) intelligence
(c) adaptability
(d) mental capacity

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

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. Gould thought that Eysenck's arguments were the result of __________ correlations.
(a) non causal
(b) irrelevant
(c) impossible
(d) radical

5. "The __________ of inferior groups must be like __________ of superior groups..."
(a) children, adults
(b) adults, adults
(c) adults, children
(d) children, children

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

7. In a factor analysis graph, the two vectors lie ___________.
(a) One on top of the other
(b) away from each other
(c) on opposite sides of the graph
(d) close to each other

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

9. "G" was considered to be _________.
(a) gender based
(b) inherited
(c) cultural
(d) racial

10. 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) 150
(b) 50
(c) 1000
(d) 100

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

12. "Mental testing becomes a theory for enhancing ___________ through proper education."
(a) intelligence
(b) races
(c) excellence
(d) potential

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

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

15. ______________ is a way of measuring the relationship between variables.
(a) Comparison
(b) Ranking
(c) Correlation
(d) A square ratio

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Spearman also found there is a _______ substrate for intelligence except that this can be affected by outside factors.

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

4. Who did Goddard classify was having a mental age below 3?

5. Intelligence, according to Goddard, came from ________ and nothing else.

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