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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. It was discovered that there was no general _________ of intelligence as Spearman once thought.
(a) ranking
(b) variable
(c) vector
(d) coefficient

2. What group of students/people, as discovered by their intelligence level in response to Binet's test, was most dangerous and trainable?
(a) Morons
(b) Idiots
(c) Retards
(d) Imbeciles

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

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

5. Where did Alfred Binet study human intelligence and how to measure it?
(a) MIT
(b) Harvard
(c) Louvre
(d) Sorbonne

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

5. Goddard believed the mental deficients should be prevented from ____________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Define the idea of correlation.

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

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

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

7. Was factor analysis the right technique to use in intelligence testing?

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

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

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

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