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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. "s" was considered the product of _________ by both Spearman and Burt.
(a) opportunity
(b) imagination
(c) understanding
(d) training

5. What outside factors are being alluded to in #151?
(a) Mental
(b) Physical
(c) Sociological
(d) Environmental

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

7. "An anatomical theory for ranking __________ - based on entire bodies, not only on heads, - had been found."
(a) races
(b) ages
(c) genders
(d) students

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

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

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

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

12. Intelligence, according to Goddard, came from ________ and nothing else.
(a) family lines
(b) race
(c) school
(d) books

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

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

15. Cesare Lombroso thought that ____________ behavior is hereditary.
(a) criminal
(b) sexual
(c) social
(d) political

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The answer to #93 caused a slowdown in ____________, leading to inferiority.

3. Negative correlation is given by vectors going in ____________ directions.

4. Where was Leon Kamin, the researcher who discovered Burt's flaws, a psychologist at?

5. Bolk felt what race was not only the most progressive, but also the most retarded?

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