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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

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

4. No matter how strong a correlation is, it says nothing about _________.
(a) cause
(b) intelligence
(c) plausibility
(d) race

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Burt's papers and data were ____________, which seems to be when his falsifications began.

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

3. Eysenck thought that those with ______ rapidly developing skills (as mentioned in #100) also had lower IQ scores.

4. Where did Alfred Binet study human intelligence and how to measure it?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Havelock Ellis' major claim in his study of the measurement of bodies in order to determine value?

2. What was Binet commissions to do in 1904?

3. What did Binet do in order to fulfill the obligations of his commission in 1904?

4. Who was Sir Cyril Burt?

5. What did E.D. Cope believe affected the value of a person and the determination of their inferiority?

6. What do correlations not imply in regards to the studies in which they are used?

7. What did Gould feel about Eysenck's arguments for black inferiority?

8. What did Burt try to claim he had developed, though it was later shown to be a false claim?

9. What did Binet's study of intelligence begin to rely on as opposed to medical measures of intelligence?

10. What was Binet's major worry about the work he was doing with intelligence testing?

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