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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. 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 environment
(c) the numbers
(d) the weather

2. Eysenck thought that those with ______ rapidly developing skills (as mentioned in #100) also had lower IQ scores.
(a) more
(b) fewer
(c) less
(d) very

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

4. What technique did Burt say he developed, although it was really Charles Spearman who created this technique?
(a) Factor counting
(b) Statistical analysis
(c) Factor analysis
(d) Algebraic formulation

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which label could also live independently and reproduce and be a threat to racial health?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the problems of Burt's studies?

2. Who was Sir Cyril Burt?

3. Define the idea of recapitulation.

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

5. What did Louis Bolk have to say about whites and blacks?

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

7. What was Binet commissions to do in 1904?

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

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

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

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