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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. Cesare Lombroso thought that ____________ behavior is hereditary.
(a) sexual
(b) political
(c) social
(d) criminal

2. Intelligence, according to Goddard, came from ________ and nothing else.
(a) books
(b) race
(c) school
(d) family lines

3. Goddard believed the mental deficients should be prevented from ____________.
(a) attending school
(b) voting
(c) breeding
(d) marrying

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

5. One of the perceived problems of Lombroso's theory was the need to call _________ criminals.
(a) children
(b) whites
(c) animals
(d) women

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of measures did Binet turn his attention to when he realized skull measuring wasn't effective?

2. Negative correlation is given by vectors going in ____________ directions.

3. ______________ is a way of measuring the relationship between variables.

4. Gould thought that Eysenck's arguments were the result of __________ correlations.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Binet commissions to do in 1904?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who was Sir Cyril Burt?

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