Exam 10: The Darwinian Influence

Concerning Spencer's contention that the notion of survival of the fittest should apply to societies,Darwin was:

Binet proposed a two-factor theory of intelligence.

Herrnstein and Murray predict that in the United States in the future:

Which of the following did Darwin believe?

Herbert Spencer applied the notion of evolution:

Evolutionary theory did not develop very fully among the Greeks because Plato and Aristotle did not believe in evolution.

Binet disagreed with Stern's use of the intelligence quotient because:

Stern introduced the terms mental age and intelligence quotient.

The goal of the 1908 version of the Binet-Simon scale was to:

Who was responsible for devising the coefficient of correlation (r)?

Spencer's synthesis of the principle of contiguity and evolutionary theory has been called:

The concepts of mental age and the intelligence quotient were introduced by:

Galton used the concept of ____ to explain why eminent individuals only tended to have eminent offspring.

According to Darwin,evolution resulted from the ____ of those accidental variations that proved to have survival value.

The goal of the 1905 version of the Binet-Simon scale of intelligence was to:

In his research on hypnotism,effects that Binet believed were due to the power of a magnet were found to be due to:

After administering his word-association test to himself several times,Galton observed all of the following except:

Darwin defined fitness in terms of an organism's:

The major conclusion from Terman's study of genius was that:

The contention that the frequency with which a response is made increases if the response is followed by a pleasurable event and decreases if it is followed by a painful event was called: