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

2. Factor analysis is a _______ method technique.

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

4. One of the perceived problems of Lombroso's theory was the need to call _________ criminals.

5. Which label could also live independently and reproduce and be a threat to racial health?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Binet commissions to do in 1904?

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

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

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

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

7. Define the idea of correlation.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The idea that criminal behavior is hereditary is another idea that springs up during the introduction of evolution. The notion that criminal tendencies could spring up in the genes and then in the behaviors was widely accepted.

Part 1: Who was the main researcher of this idea of criminal behavior based on hereditary patterns?

Part 2: What were the weaknesses of this researcher's studies?

Part 3: What was the theory of atavism and what did it mean to society?

Essay Topic 2

One of the popular craniometry scientists was Robert Bennett Bean. This Virginian physician again tried to find the differences between whites and blacks in order to prove the disparity of intelligence.

Part 1: What did Bean gather data on for his research study?

Part 2: What was Bean claiming as the results of his research? What were the differences between the two races?

Part 3: What were 2 of the 4 arguments Gould had again Bean's research?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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