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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Goddard classify was having a mental age below 3?
(a) Imbeciles
(b) Idiots
(c) Morons
(d) Debiles

2. Who had a mental age between 3 and 7?
(a) Idiots
(b) Debiles
(c) Imbeciles
(d) Morons

3. It was discovered that there was no general _________ of intelligence as Spearman once thought.
(a) vector
(b) ranking
(c) coefficient
(d) variable

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. One of the perceived problems of Lombroso's theory was the need to call _________ criminals.
(a) women
(b) animals
(c) whites
(d) children

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Factor analysis is a _______ method technique.

5. Eysenck believed the _____________ development of black youngsters develops more quickly than in whites.

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