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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. 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?
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