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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 German psychologist W. Stern argued that mental age should be ____________ by chronological age.
(a) multiplied
(b) divided
(c) added to
(d) subtracted

2. Who had a mental age between 3 and 7?
(a) Debiles
(b) Idiots
(c) Imbeciles
(d) Morons

3. When Burt's sample increased, his correlation between pairs for IQ _________.
(a) was scattered on the graphs
(b) remained unchanged
(c) increased
(d) decreased

4. One problem that resulted from Binet's test was this idea: If intelligence was ____________, it was inevitable.
(a) useful
(b) weak
(c) inherited
(d) possible

5. What kinds of measures did Binet turn his attention to when he realized skull measuring wasn't effective?
(a) Fingers and toes
(b) Foot
(c) Spiritual
(d) Psychological

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Sir Cyril Burt was a medical tester who studied ___________.

3. Eysenck thought that those with ______ rapidly developing skills (as mentioned in #100) also had lower IQ scores.

4. No matter how strong a correlation is, it says nothing about _________.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who was Sir Cyril Burt?

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

8. Define the idea of correlation.

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

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

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