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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Gould thought that Eysenck's arguments were the result of __________ correlations.
(a) radical
(b) impossible
(c) irrelevant
(d) non causal

3. E.D. Cope based his theory in #92 on the idea that the ____________ brought on earlier maturation.
(a) warmer climate
(b) many wartimes
(c) cooler climate
(d) lack of sun

4. The field of ________ sciences was redefined during the 19th century.
(a) health
(b) skeletal
(c) mental
(d) life

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

6. Binet believed that not all intelligence was ___________.
(a) necessary
(b) the same
(c) allowed
(d) inborn

7. 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) 100
(b) 50
(c) 150
(d) 1000

8. Binet was commissioned in 1904 to find a way to identify children who ______________.
(a) were autistic
(b) were unteachable
(c) were bad at math
(d) needed special help in school

9. The answer to #114 became a way to measure the ___________ of the children, and thus their IQ levels.
(a) intelligence
(b) age level
(c) adaptability
(d) mental capacity

10. The answer to #142 indicates how much of a change there is in one variable due to a change in __________.
(a) another variable
(b) the numbers
(c) the environment
(d) the weather

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

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

13. Factor analysis was the _________ technique to be used in intelligence testing, even thought Burt went about it the wrong way.
(a) best
(b) easiest
(c) only
(d) worst

14. What was the nationality of H. J. Eysenck?
(a) German
(b) Swiss
(c) British
(d) Swedish

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Goddard was trying to develop a _____________ scale to measure intelligence.

2. "The __________ of inferior groups must be like __________ of superior groups..."

3. Gould felt that Eysenck's arguments are not based on ___________ facts.

4. One problem that resulted from Binet's test was this idea: If intelligence was ____________, it was inevitable.

5. What big theory was just becoming popular in the nineteenth century?

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