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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. Where was Leon Kamin, the researcher who discovered Burt's flaws, a psychologist at?
(a) Princeton
(b) Yale
(c) Brown
(d) Harvard

2. The answer to #114 became a way to measure the ___________ of the children, and thus their IQ levels.
(a) adaptability
(b) intelligence
(c) age level
(d) mental capacity

3. Havelock found that _________ males were more effeminate.
(a) older
(b) rural
(c) rrban
(d) craftsworking

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is explained in terms of geometry and matrix algebra?

2. The field of ________ sciences was redefined during the 19th century.

3. In a factor analysis graph, the two vectors lie ___________.

4. What group of students/people, as discovered by their intelligence level in response to Binet's test, was most dangerous and trainable?

5. Binet also noticed differences between the figures collected by himself and by his student, ___________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Havelock Ellis' major claim in his study of the measurement of bodies in order to determine value?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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