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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Binet also noticed differences between the figures collected by himself and by his student, ___________.
(a) John
(b) Simon
(c) Paul
(d) Morton

2. One problem that resulted from Binet's test was this idea: If intelligence was ____________, it was inevitable.
(a) inherited
(b) possible
(c) weak
(d) useful

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

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

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

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

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

8. Gould felt that Eysenck's arguments are not based on ___________ facts.
(a) racial
(b) measured
(c) realistic
(d) statistical

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

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

11. 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) 100
(d) 1000

12. Binet spend a lot of time measuring skulls to see the correlation between size and intelligence, like Broca claimed, but his findings did not correlate with the __________ designation of smart and dumb.
(a) teacher's
(b) Broca's
(c) data's
(d) government's

13. What was the nationality of H. J. Eysenck?
(a) British
(b) German
(c) Swedish
(d) Swiss

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

15. What group of students/people, as discovered by their intelligence level in response to Binet's test, was most dangerous and trainable?
(a) Idiots
(b) Retards
(c) Morons
(d) Imbeciles

Short Answer Questions

1. Members of the inferior group were always compared with ________ children.

2. The answer to #142 indicates how much of a change there is in one variable due to a change in __________.

3. "An anatomical theory for ranking __________ - based on entire bodies, not only on heads, - had been found."

4. Cesare Lombroso thought that ____________ behavior is hereditary.

5. "Mental testing becomes a theory for enhancing ___________ through proper education."

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