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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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) 1000
(b) 150
(c) 100
(d) 50

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. The answer to #93 caused a slowdown in ____________, leading to inferiority.
(a) skin coloring
(b) development
(c) sexual characteristics
(d) hair coloring

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

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

15. Spearman found that intelligence is a ____________ thing.
(a) confusing
(b) mmeasurable
(c) many splendored
(d) unitary

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Gould thought that Eysenck's arguments were the result of __________ correlations.

4. "G" was considered to be _________.

5. What did Binet devise in order to help test the school children?

(see the answer keys)

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