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The Gould Study
A bunch of questions to test your knowledge!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A dynamic state, not a static one... | Intelligence |
| An Intelligence Test.. | Simon-Binet |
| The test for literate recruits.. | Army Alpha Test |
| The test containing 7 parts... | Army Beta Test |
| Only ______ of those who failed Beta Test were allowed to take individual examinations. | 1/5 |
| IQ tests are _____________ biased | culturally |
| Levels of literacy were much _________ than expected | lower |
| Gould wanted to identify the problematic nature of __________________ | psychometric testing |
| This test had 8 parts featuring sequence completing tasks.... | Army Alpha Test |
| An act passed in 1924... | Immigration Restriction Act |
| IQ testing is often.... | unreliable |
| The way Boring analysed data can be seen as following a _________________ method | quasi-experimental |
| The naturally occurring independent variable is the .... | ethnicity of participants |
| The dependent variable is the .... | mental age based on tests of native intellectual ability |
| The tests can be said to be ___________ | standardised |
| Carl Brigham refused to accept that his data of Jewish people could be flawed. This can be seen as a problem with ____________ | falsifiability |
| Yerkes didn't account for ______________________ | unequal educational opportunities |
| The results were not ______________. This is an ethical problem. | anonymous |
| Gould carried out a __________ of Yerkes' work. | review |
| Army recruits were told nothing about the __________________ | purpose of the tests |
| An ethical problem with the tests...... | Not right to withdraw |
| Yerkes believed that Intelligence was __________ | Innate |
| What key theme does the study relate to? | Measuring Differences |
| Black men had an average mental age of | 10.41 |
| White American males had an average mental age of | 13 |
| The _________ the skin colour, the higher the IQ score. | lighter |
| At the time, the tests were accepted as evidence of a real difference between ______________________________. | intelligence in different racial groups. |
| Carl Brigham used the evidence of the tests in a _______ of ideal propaganda for racists. | book |
| The tests were all in ......... | English. |
| How many people from Eastern and Central Europe were denied entry into the USA due to the Immigration Restriction act? | 6 million |
| The tests were poorly ___________________. | administered. |
| In the Army Beta Test, how many answers had to be given in a written form? | 3 |
| After queues for the Beta Test began to build up, this led to an ___________________ of standards in order to relocate more men to the Alpha test. | artificial lowering. |
| IQ tests assume that intelligence is ..... | innate |
| ____________ is a system of living and acting operations. | intelligence. |