Deck 8: Race, Intelligence, and Genetics

Question 1

Traits that are under simple genetic control with little environmental influence include

A) intelligence
B) height
C) hemophilia
D) inventiveness

Answer 1

hemophilia

Question 2

The arrangement of primitive life forms to complex animals arrayed in a linear fashion is called

A) the Linnaeus hierarchy.
B) the scientific relationship between race and behavior.
C) an upside down ladder.
D) the Great Chain of Being.

Answer 2

the Great Chain of Being.

Question 3

Alfred Binet developed an intelligence test in order to

A) show that the French are more intelligent then the British
B) lay the foundation for eugenics.
C) identify slow-learning children who might benefit from intervention.
D) demonstrate the hierarchy of human intelligence.

Answer 3

identify slow-learning children who might benefit from intervention.

Question 4

The synthesis of intelligence tests and eugenics

A) resulted in Hitler's Final Solution.
B) was never put into practice.
C) was never connected to science or any scientists
D) was proposed by Charles Darwin

Question 5

Forced sterilizations in the United States

A) never happened; all sterilizations have been voluntary.
B) happened because the feeble-minded could not be depended upon to practice birth control.
C) were necessary because the U.S. had too many feeble-minded immigrants.
D) happened in the context of the ideology of eugenics

Question 6

Arthur Jensen and Charles Murray

A) tried to write intelligence tests that were not culturally biased.
B) were 18^th century proponents of interactionism
C) are modern proponents of the inheritance of intelligence.
D) denied the existence of cognitive elite.

Question 7

Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray

A) argued that because of better habitats, U.S. society is becoming less stratified.
B) argued that U.S. society is becoming more stratified based on intelligence.
C) had nothing to say about U.S. society stratification.
D) accepted environmental determinism.

Question 8

It has been shown that

A) African Americans who have more European genes are more intelligent than those with fewer European genes.
B) children of white U.S. soldiers and German women had a higher IQ than those fathered by black U.S soldiers and German women.
C) the environment has no effect on IQ.
D) there are no differences in IQ between African Americans with lots of European genes and those with few European genes.

Question 9

Which of the following is a true statement with regard to the research presented in the Bell Curve?

A) The authors are very good statisticians and use their skills to present their ideas in an honest manner.
B) The authors did no statistics but presented data from which they made generalizations.
C) The authors hide the weak statistical relationships of the analysis of their data and point to trends instead.
D) None of these statements are true.

Question 10

J. Philippe Rushton's work seems to

A) be political advocacy and racial stereotyping rather that solid science.
B) be concerned adaptive significance of reproductive traits of people from different geographic places.
C) argue that African have small brains because they are K-selected.
D) suggest that Europeans have a low libido and have few offspring.

Question 11

After years of research, science has established a connection between race, intelligence, and genetics?

Question 12

During World War I soldiers were given the Army Mental Tests. One conclusion was that the American adults scored barely above that of a moron.

Question 13

No intelligence tests for African Americans were ever developed because IQ tests are culture free.

Question 14

Richard Nisbett found statistical evidence that the data and analyses presented in the "Bell Curve" (1994, Murray and Herrnstein) were correct.

Question 15

Eugenics, which was once considered cutting-edge science, is now seen as discredited pseudoscience.

Question 16

_____________ developed the first tests of intelligence.

Question 17

_____________ modified the Binet intelligent test which furthered a strict idea of the inheritance of intelligence.

Question 18

_____________ first explored the mistaken idea that humans could be bred to improve the quality of the genetic make up of humans.

Question 19

_____________ created the feeble-minded taxonomy of the idiot, moron, and imbecile.

Question 20

_____________ was highly critical of intelligence tests and argued that the tests were culturally biased.