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6. What is a hereditarian?

  • Someone who believes that intelligence is caused by a mix a nature and nurture
  • Someone who believes that intelligence is caused by genetics
  • Someone who believes that Intelligence is only caused by nurture
  • Someone who believes that intelligence is fixed

7. Why did Yerkes create his intelligence test?

  • To see what effect culture had on intelligence
  • To solidify psychology as a science by creating an objective test that can be used to determine intelligence
  • To analyse the best methods of administering tests
  • To support hereditarian ideas

8. What did the Army Alpha test consist of?

  • A spoken test
  • A written test encompassing filling in missing numbers in a sequence, completing analogies etc.
  • A pictorial test consisting of completing a maze, number tasks, complete-a-picture etc.
  • A verbal test consisting on completing analogies and answering general knowledge questions

9. How did the government use the results of Yerkes' study?

  • To create a law resulting in more control over immigration
  • To ban breeding of White Americans with non-white/non-Americans
  • To support castration of non-Americans
  • To alter the curriculum to teach eugenics

10. Who took the Army Alpha?

  • Literate recruits
  • Those who failed Army Beta
  • It was randomly allocated
  • Those who passed Army Beta

11. Who took the Individual Examination?

  • Those who failed the Army Beta/Those who were illiterate
  • Those who passed the Army Beta
  • Those who failed the Army Beta
  • It was randomly allocated

12. What was the average mental age of White Americans?

  • 13.04
  • 14.84
  • 12.72
  • 15.83

13. Who took the Army Beta?

  • Those of who failed the Army Alpha
  • Those who passed the individual examination
  • Those who passed the Army Alpha
  • Illiterate Participants/those who failed the Army Alpha
  • Randomly Allocated

14. What did was someone who a got a C assigned as?

  • Ordinary Private
  • Colonel
  • Couldn't follow instructions
  • Front-line

15. What research method was used by Yerkes?

  • Correlation Analysis
  • Psychometric Testing
  • Case Studies
  • Self-report

16. Which of these wasn't one of Yerkes' conclusions?

  • The average man in the nation is a moron
  • The longer a person spends in America, the greater their mental age and therefore intelligence
  • Mental testing of this kind is valid and scientific
  • It is possible to judge someone's intelligence based on the colour of their skin
  • Intelligence is innate quality

17. What did the individual examination consist of?

  • A spoken test
  • A written test encompassing filling in missing numbers in a sequence, completing analogies etc.
  • A pictorial test consisting of completing a maze, number tasks, complete-a-picture etc.
  • A verbal test consisting on completing analogies and answering general knowledge questions

18. What was Yerkes' sample?

  • 1.5 million Blue and white-collar workers in Iowa
  • 100,000 undergraduate students at Yale
  • 1.75 million soldiers
  • 373,000 American inhabitants in New York

19. What was the average mental age for Black Americans?

  • 10.74
  • 11.34
  • 10.41
  • 11.01

20. To what extent where the protocols for assigning tests adhered to?

  • Many people were given the wrong test, and many who failed a test weren't given another
  • 75% of people were assigned to correct test
  • 23% of people were given the wrong test
  • Most people were given the Army Beta test, irrespective of whether they were literate