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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. One problem that resulted from Binet's test was this idea: If intelligence was ____________, it was inevitable.
(a) inherited
(b) weak
(c) useful
(d) possible

2. Factor analysis is a _______ method technique.
(a) calculus
(b) algebraic
(c) correlation
(d) variable

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

4. Unlike Binet, Goddard used __________ to label and to categorize.
(a) images
(b) labels
(c) colors
(d) shapes

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Leon Kamin, the researcher who discovered Burt's flaws, a psychologist at?

2. 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.

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

4. Factor analysis was the _________ technique to be used in intelligence testing, even thought Burt went about it the wrong way.

5. What was the nationality of H. J. Eysenck?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the factor analysis variable 'g' stand for?

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

3. What does Cesare Lombroso have to say about criminal behavior?

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

5. What did Ellis find happened to men who were living in urban areas?

6. What were the three rules Binet set up to help prevent the misuse of his test?

7. Binet was also trying to create a test that distinguished between what?

8. What were the three facts upon which H.J. Eysenck based his theory of the inferiority of blacks?

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

10. What did Binet find when he went to various schools to test out Broca's theory of head measurement?

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