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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is explained in terms of geometry and matrix algebra?
(a) Advanced algebra
(b) Trigonometry
(c) Factor analysis
(d) Calculus

2. Spearman also found there is a _______ substrate for intelligence except that this can be affected by outside factors.
(a) concept
(b) physical
(c) imaginary
(d) mental

3. 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

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

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

6. Goddard believed the mental deficients should be prevented from ____________.
(a) voting
(b) attending school
(c) breeding
(d) marrying

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

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

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

10. Where was Leon Kamin, the researcher who discovered Burt's flaws, a psychologist at?
(a) Princeton
(b) Yale
(c) Brown
(d) Harvard

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

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

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

14. 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

15. Burt's papers and data were ____________, which seems to be when his falsifications began.
(a) assembled into books
(b) moved
(c) archived
(d) destroyed

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. E.D. Cope thought that _______ Europeans were inferior to others.

4. What technique did Burt say he developed, although it was really Charles Spearman who created this technique?

5. How many reasons did Burt feel could be used for discounting the effects of environment?

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