AP PSYCHOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR

PREDICTING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The eugenics movement would have been most likely to encourage
A
selective breeding of highly intelligent people
B
creation of special education programs for intellectually inferior children
C
construction of culturally and racially unbiased tests of intelligence.
D
use of factor analysis for identification of various types of intelligence
E
identification of lower IQ students in order to target more specific tutoring help.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: –The “science” of improving human stock by giving “the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable."

Detailed explanation-2: -Eugenics: The science of human improvement by better breeding.

Detailed explanation-3: -Heritability of intelligence refers to: the amount of group variation in intelligence that can be attributed to genetics. The most widely used modern intelligence test was developed by: David Wechsler.

Detailed explanation-4: -Intelligence testing began in earnest in France, when in 1904 psychologist Alfred Binet was commissioned by the French government to find a method to differentiate between children who were intellectually normal and those who were inferior.

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