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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following was included among Galton’s tests of “intelligence” at his
a. arithmetic
b. reaction time
c. vocabulary
d. word association
2. A flaw in Galton’s tests of intelligence at the 1884 anthropometric laboratory was the
sensory acuity.
3. Unlike Wundt and Fechner, who focused on establishing general psychological prin-
a. individual differences.
b. personality.
c. mental illness.
d. sensory experience.
ferences.
4. A psychology that focuses on the measurement and study of variations among people
known as
a. psychophysics.
b. self-psychology.
d. structuralism.
ferences.
16.
d. He earned the title of senior “wrangler” on the Mathematical Tripos Examination
at age 18.
7. Francis Galton’s first entrée into the British scientific world came primarily through
his
b. a phrenologist who told him his brain and intelligence were naturally better suited
9. Francis Galton made important contributions to all of the following fields EXCEPT
a. meteorology.
b. geology.
c. genetics.
d. statistics.
psychological characteristics?
11. The fact that physical variables such as height or weight fall into normal distributions
a. Adolph Quetelet.
b. Charles Darwin.
c. Francis Galton.
d. Karl Pearson.
12. When measurements such as height and weight are collected from large populations,
the collective data will invariably show all of the following features EXCEPT
a. many more measurements that fall in the middle ranges than at the extremes.
b. individual scores most widely separated from each other at the extremes.
13. If we randomly select 100 people and arrange them in order of height, which of the
following pairs will probably show the greatest differences between their two
heights?
d. The differences between all adjacent pairs will be about the same.
14. According to Galton’s data in Hereditary Genius, which kinds of relatives are most
a. any relatives of the first three degrees, so long as they have similar environments
d. brothers
15. The idea that the human race may be improved by selective breeding, in much the
same manner as animal breeders carefully select for certain traits, is known as
a. eugenics.
c. social Darwinism.
16. The major purpose for which Galton devised the idea of intelligence tests was to
17. Swiss botanist Alphonse de Candolle’s 1872 book History of the Sciences and Scien-
tists over Two Centuries was important for all the following reasons EXCEPT
d. its criticism of many popular uses of the word nature inspired Galton to propose
theories.
18. Galton’s book English Men of Science is notable today because it was
19. Francis Galton and Alphonse de Candolle both studied scientific eminence and each a
published book on the subject. Although they investigated the same subject matter,
a. heredity; environment
b. environment; heredity
theories.
20. Galton’s personal conviction that differences in intellectual ability are largely innate
a. in school he found himself easily surpassing other students who came from much
b. in school he found that he could not compete successfully against the very top
c. he observed that the top scientists tended to come from specific countries.
21. The phrase nature and nurture was introduced and popularized by
22. As a result of organizing his data into __________, Galton noticed a pattern he
termed regression toward the mean.
a. normal distributions
b. regression lines
c. scatter plots
d. bell curves
sion.
23. When a student scores extremely poorly on one examination but then improves on
c. random fluctuation.
sion.
24. When there is a complete absence of a relationship between two variables, the regres-
a. horizontal.
c. U-shaped.
sion.
25. Who devised the computing formula now commonly used to calculate correlation
coefficients?
a. Karl Holzinger
b. Karl Pearson
c. Adolph Quetelet
d. Alphonse de Candolle
sion.
26. All of the following are true of Galton’s studies of mental imagery EXCEPT that he
a. concluded normal people vary dramatically in the frequency, intensity, and vivid-
28. In the 1920s behavioral geneticists realized that research on “separated” twins could
be used to determine the “heritability” of any measurable trait, but only if certain
conditions were met. Which of the following was NOT one of those conditions?
c. The twins must have been randomly placed in a representative sample of adoptive
foster homes.
d. The twins must have been separated completely and very early.
29. The first major study of separated twins was done in 1937 by a biologist, a psycholo-
gist, and a statistician. All of the following are true about this study EXCEPT
a. there was a positive correlation between the twins’ IQ, indicating a significant
b. those twin pairs who had been most completely separated and reared in different
environment.
c. it was difficult to find identical twin pairs who had been fully separated.
30. Studies of separated identical twins have had the purpose of measuring the “heritabil-
ity” of various characteristics including IQ. That heritability figure is defined as the
b. proportion of the IQ variability within the tested population that was determined
by heredity.
c. “leftover” variability in intelligence after all environmental influences have been
accounted for.
31. In the 1960s British psychologist Sir Cyril Burt published a study on separated twins
indicating that nature was much more important than nurture in determining intelli-
gence. All of the following statements about Burt’s study are true EXCEPT it
a. temporarily tipped the balance of informed opinion toward the hereditarian view.
twin studies.
32. Which of the following has NOT been a problem in conducting a scientifically de-
a. finding twin pairs who were completely separated from each other at an early age
adoptive environments
b. +.7
c. 0
d. +10
sion.
34. Although Galton is best known to psychologists for his work on behavior genetics,
a. meteorology.
b. computer science.
c. geology.
35. Galton’s word association experiments may well have had an influence on
a. Sigmund Freud.
b. Alphonse de Candolle.
c. Adolphe Quetelet.
d. Gustav Fechner.
36. Galton justified his neurophysiological approach to intelligence testing with all of the
a. mentally subnormal people supposedly cannot distinguish well between hot and
cold.
b. women are supposedly both less intelligent than men and less able to select a fine
wine.
c. large head sizes must reflect large and powerful brains within.
37. Arthur Jensen relied heavily on the work of __________ in making his argument that
ly__________.
38. Cyril Burt’s study of separated identical twins was briefly considered to be the best of
a. its twin pairs had been placed completely randomly in a full range of adoptive
families.
b. its twin sample had been collected over a period of several decades.
c. the intelligence tests it employed were more reliable than in other studies.
39. If the educational environments of all children could be made more equal, then the
heritability value for their IQ scores would tend to
b. increase.
c. decrease.
d. be impossible to predict.
40. The most definitive estimate of the heritability of intelligence is currently represented
by
d. the Minnesota study (MISTRA)’s estimate of about .70 for a middle-class popula-
41. Leon Kamin has said that his initial questions about Burt’s twin research were
aroused because
42. Galton’s theories were substantially influenced by all of the following scientists EX-
CEPT
a. John Stuart Mill.
b. Charles Darwin.
c. Adolphe Quetelet.
d. Alphonse de Candolle.
43. Arthur Jensen’s analysis of the effectiveness of compensatory education programs for
b. hypothesized that racial differences may have played a role in the disappointing
d. questioned the competence of the people who teach in inner city environments.
44. Galton’s stated arguments in support of his anthropometric tests as measures of intel-
lectual ability included all of the following EXCEPT his belief that
c. quickness in reaction times was associated with general efficiency in mental ac-
tivity.
d. children’s poorer performance than adults on these tests was because of their still
undeveloped intelligence.
gence testing.
45. After adopting the concept of “nature and nurture” Galton argued that
d. the two factors interact in such complex ways that it is impossible to separate
their effects.
46. For Galton, the most important goal of an ideal eugenic society would be to
a. replace the educational system’s emphasis on classics with more focus on sci-
ence.
c. promote breeding among the most gifted young men and women.
d. discourage breeding among the least gifted young men and women.
MATCHING
1. Adolphe Quetelet
2. Francis Galton
3. Karl Pearson
statistics.
statistics.
4. Cyril Burt
5. Francis Galton
8. Alphonse de Candolle
9. Charles Darwin
tions.
tions.
tions.
a. He published studies of twin pairs reared apart, now discredited but supposedly
IQ is as high as .8.
c. His idea for eugenics, initially envisioned as a positive program to promote breed-
ing by the gifted, was later taken up in negative programs designed to eliminate
c. “The History of Twins, as a Criterion of the Relative Powers of Nature and Nur-
ture”
tions.
tions.
tions.
tions.
bles
c. the tendency for extreme scores on one variable to be associated with less ex-
19. Pearson’s r
b. a grid in which the scores for two variables can be plotted against each other
a. a discipline that focuses on the measurement and study of variations among peo-
mined by genetics
24. eugenics
25. heritability
a. recording the first reactions that come to mind following the random presentation
of stimulus words
twin pairs
heritability of intelligence to be .8
SHORT ANSWER
1. Define heritability.
ANS:
by genetics.
ANS:
Pearson refined Galton’s ideas about correlation and regression and developed a con-
venient formula for calculating a “product-moment correlation coefficient,” also re-
ANS:
To improve the human race through selective breeding, Galton thought it was neces-
sary to encourage the mostly highly able young men and women to intermarry. They
then needed to be encouraged to have children at rates greater than less able parents.
He imagined creating eugenic exams to identify the most able men and women in so-
ciety.
ANS:
When studying the effectiveness of Operation Head Start, Jensen concluded that
best. Based on this, and relying heavily on Cyril Burt’s work, he concluded that it
ANS:
Test Bank for Pioneers of Psychology, 5th Edition, Raymond E. Fancher, Alexandra Rutherford,
ric laboratory featured a number of devices that measured or tested volunteer mem-
bers of the public on variables that he hoped would reflect inheritable natural or men-
such as reaction time and sensory discrimination. Although they did not work as