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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 German psychologist W. Stern argued that mental age should be ____________ by chronological age.
(a) added to
(b) divided
(c) multiplied
(d) subtracted

2. ______________ is a way of measuring the relationship between variables.
(a) A square ratio
(b) Correlation
(c) Ranking
(d) Comparison

3. Bolk felt what race was not only the most progressive, but also the most retarded?
(a) Indian
(b) Black
(c) He didn't say this.
(d) White

4. Eysenck noticed that the average ________ of whites exceeds that of blacks.
(a) eye color
(b) hair length
(c) IQ
(d) height

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Havelock found that _________ males were more effeminate.

2. E.D. Cope thought that _______ Europeans were inferior to others.

3. Spearman found that intelligence is a ____________ thing.

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

5. Who did Goddard classify was having a mental age below 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Define the idea of correlation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Define the idea of recapitulation.

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

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

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