The original purpose for developing the first intelligence tests in the early part of the twentieth century was:
a. to identify children who would not do well in school
b. to provide a reason to discriminate against children from African descent
c. to give the French government a means of selecting especially talented children for placement in state-funded educational programs for the gifted
d. to study how physical health and intelligence were related
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Learning Objective 8.6
Conceptual
Moderate
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A split-brain patient is shown the word pen only in her right visual field. That patient will be able to:
A) state that she just saw the word pen. B) write the word pen with her left hand. C) reach behind a screen with her left hand and choose a pen from a group of distractor objects. D) draw a picture of a pen with her left hand.
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A. stimulus generalization. B. shaping. C. punishment. D. discrimination.
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a. Snowball sampling b. Double-blind assignment c. Random assignment d. Single-blind sampling