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

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

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

4. Eysenck believed the _____________ development of black youngsters develops more quickly than in whites.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Binet commissions to do in 1904?

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

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

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

8. What does the factor analysis variable 'g' stand for?

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 2

Another researcher of brain size was Paul Broca. This professor of surgery used numbers which Gould is unsure were legitimate in order to show, one again, the inferiority of blacks.

Part 1: What does Gould think Broca did before doing his research that affected the results?

Part 2: What were Broca's numbers and results based on?

Part 3: In what way were Broca's studies biased?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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