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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. According to Lombroso, the genes of the past are contained in the hereditary of the individual and the ___________ surfaces at times.
(a) playfulness
(b) aggression towards women
(c) behavior
(d) shyness

2. What did Binet devise in order to help test the school children?
(a) A series of tasks
(b) A set of math problems
(c) Story problems
(d) A picture book

3. What was the nationality of H. J. Eysenck?
(a) British
(b) Swiss
(c) Swedish
(d) German

4. Spearman found that intelligence is a ____________ thing.
(a) many splendored
(b) mmeasurable
(c) confusing
(d) unitary

5. Who did Goddard classify was having a mental age below 3?
(a) Imbeciles
(b) Idiots
(c) Debiles
(d) Morons

Short Answer Questions

1. Binet tried to devise a system of testing that would distinguish between the ____________ intelligence and the learned intelligence.

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

3. A perfect correlation graph between two variables would show ________________.

4. Binet spend a lot of time measuring skulls to see the correlation between size and intelligence, like Broca claimed, but his findings did not correlate with the __________ designation of smart and dumb.

5. H.H. Goddard was the first to do what with Binet's test?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How were Burt's papers and data related to his studies destroyed?

3. Where did Alfred Binet first begin his study of human intelligence?

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

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

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

7. What was Binet commissions to do in 1904?

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

9. Who was Sir Cyril Burt?

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

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