Multiple Choice
Why was Swiss botanist Alphonse de Candolle's 1872 book History of the Sciences and Scientists over Two Centuries important?
A) It showed the importance of environmental factors such as climate, government, and religious institutions in producing eminent scientists.
B) It stimulated Galton to do the research for English Men of Science.
C) It supported the strongly hereditarian position of Hereditary Genius.
D) both a and b above
Correct Answer:
Verified
Correct Answer:
Verified
Q1: Galton's personal conviction that differences in intellectual
Q18: In the 1960s British psychologist Sir Cyril
Q22: Galton justified his neurophysiological approach to intelligence
Q23: The first major study of separated twins
Q24: A flaw in Galton's tests of intelligence
Q25: When a student scores extremely poorly on
Q26: Galton's book English Men of Science is
Q40: Although Galton is best known to psychologists
Q54: Francis Galton's formal academic training was primarily
Q82: The major purpose for which Galton devised