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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Alfred Binet study human intelligence and how to measure it?
(a) MIT
(b) Harvard
(c) Sorbonne
(d) Louvre

2. A perfect correlation graph between two variables would show ________________.
(a) up and down lines
(b) overlapping vectors
(c) one line
(d) shaded areas in the corners

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

4. What did Binet devise in order to help test the school children?
(a) A set of math problems
(b) Story problems
(c) A series of tasks
(d) A picture book

5. H.H. Goddard was the first to do what with Binet's test?
(a) Bring it to America
(b) Print it and turn it into a book
(c) Follow all the rules
(d) Use it on black children

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Eysenck thought that those with ______ rapidly developing skills (as mentioned in #100) also had lower IQ scores.
(a) very
(b) more
(c) fewer
(d) less

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

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

15. Which label could also live independently and reproduce and be a threat to racial health?
(a) Morons
(b) Imbeciles
(c) Debiles
(d) Idiots

Short Answer Questions

1. Havelock found that _________ males were more effeminate.

2. The principal components approach allowed Burt to identify _________ factors.

3. Binet tried to devise a system of testing that would distinguish between the ____________ intelligence and the learned intelligence.

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

5. Havelock Ellis was a scientist who claimed the superiority of __________ during this period.

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