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

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

3. No matter how strong a correlation is, it says nothing about _________.
(a) cause
(b) plausibility
(c) race
(d) intelligence

4. Goddard was trying to develop a _____________ scale to measure intelligence.
(a) unilinear
(b) linear
(c) multi-linear
(d) non-linear

5. Burt's papers and data were ____________, which seems to be when his falsifications began.
(a) assembled into books
(b) destroyed
(c) archived
(d) moved

Short Answer Questions

1. Goddard believed the mental deficients should be prevented from ____________.

2. Who did Goddard classify was having a mental age below 3?

3. According to Lombroso, the genes of the past are contained in the hereditary of the individual and the ___________ surfaces at times.

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

5. The answer to #93 caused a slowdown in ____________, leading to inferiority.

Short Essay Questions

1. Define the idea of correlation.

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

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

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

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

6. Define the idea of recapitulation.

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

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

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

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

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