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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 __________ of inferior groups must be like __________ of superior groups..."
(a) adults, adults
(b) adults, children
(c) children, adults
(d) children, children

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

3. "Mental testing becomes a theory for enhancing ___________ through proper education."
(a) races
(b) intelligence
(c) excellence
(d) potential

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

5. Binet believed that not all intelligence was ___________.
(a) necessary
(b) inborn
(c) allowed
(d) the same

Short Answer Questions

1. Unlike Binet, Goddard used __________ to label and to categorize.

2. "G" was considered to be _________.

3. What outside factors are being alluded to in #151?

4. The general intellectual knowledge of the child was calculated by subtracting the ________ age from his true chronological age.

5. The principal components approach allowed Burt to identify _________ factors.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Sir Cyril Burt?

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

3. Define the idea of recapitulation.

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

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

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

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

8. Define the idea of correlation.

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

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

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