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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What big theory was just becoming popular in the nineteenth century?

2. The answer to #114 became a way to measure the ___________ of the children, and thus their IQ levels.

3. Factor analysis is a _______ method technique.

4. "[T]he child represents a ____________ adult ancestor."

5. Cesare Lombroso thought that ____________ behavior is hereditary.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Define the idea of recapitulation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The condemnation of other races seems to be the target of many of the intelligence studies and their study parameters. Studies seem to have been created just to point out the inferiority of these races.

Part 1: Which races are singled out in this book as being less than intelligent?

Part 2: What are the reasons given for these races being less than intelligent? What is the 'proof' the scientists have to offer?

Part 3: Do you think it's possible for one race to be inferior to another? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

H.H. Goddard is a fascinating researcher in the field of intelligence measurement and heredity. His claim to fame is that he brought the Binet scale to America, but seems to have ignored the rules that went along with it.

Part 1: What are some of the categories Goddard used in order to rank individuals according to their intelligence?

Part 2: What are the similarities and the differences between these categories?

Part 3: What were the two errors Goddard encountered as he tried to develop a unilinear scale to measure intelligence?

Essay Topic 3

Havelock Ellis claimed that one group of people was superior to another, while Louis Bolk noticed differences among genders, depending on where they lived. These two scientists has revolutionary ideas for their time period.

Part 1: What group did Havelock Ellis feel was superior to others?

Part 2: What differences among genders, based on living situation, did Louis Bolk find?

Part 3: What were Bolk's feelings about the superiority of the white race? What did he have to say about whites as a race as a whole?

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