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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. "s" was considered the product of _________ by both Spearman and Burt.
(a) understanding
(b) training
(c) imagination
(d) opportunity

2. Members of the inferior group were always compared with ________ children.
(a) white
(b) young
(c) Indian
(d) black

3. Binet also noticed differences between the figures collected by himself and by his student, ___________.
(a) Morton
(b) Paul
(c) John
(d) Simon

4. What technique did Burt say he developed, although it was really Charles Spearman who created this technique?
(a) Factor counting
(b) Factor analysis
(c) Statistical analysis
(d) Algebraic formulation

5. Factor analysis is a _______ method technique.
(a) variable
(b) algebraic
(c) correlation
(d) calculus

Short Answer Questions

1. Spearman also found there is a _______ substrate for intelligence except that this can be affected by outside factors.

2. The German psychologist W. Stern argued that mental age should be ____________ by chronological age.

3. "______________ proved an irresistible criterion for any scientist who wanted to rank human groups as higher or lower."

4. What does 'g' stand for in a graph for factor analysis?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Define the idea of correlation.

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

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

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

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

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