Cattell's creative eugenics program would:
a. encourage less intelligent people to have more children
b. encourage poorer people to have more children
c. encourage more socially successful people to have more children
d. discourage richer people from having any children
Question 2According to Ryckman, Beyondism:
a. is based almost completely on solid scientific data
b. will probably enjoy increased popularity with personality psychologists over the next three decades
c. is largely a conservative philosophy with little scientific evidence to support it
d. encompasses a set of ideas that are noncontroversial
Question 3The program that focuses on reducing the large number of mentally defective individuals in the culture by requiring sterilization is called:
a. restrictive eugenics
b. competitive eugenics
c. healthy eugenics
d. creative eugenics
Question 4On the 16 PF test, people who are resistant to change and traditional tend to score low on Factor Q1, the dimension of:
a. openness to change
b. self-reliance
c. perfectionism
d. warmth
Question 5On the 16 PF test, people who are caring and generous tend to score high on Factor A, the dimension of:
a. emotional stability
b. liveliness
c. warmth
d. social boldness
Question 6Genetic research has indicated that approximately:
a. 90 of the variation in intelligence among individuals is due to environmental factors
b. 30 of the variation in intelligence is due to environmental factors and errors of measurement
c. 90 of the variation in intelligence is due to genetic factors
d. 50 of the variation in intelligence is due to genetic factors
Question 7According to Cattell, the percentage of genes in common for members of various groupings, ranging from most to least, is:
a. identical twins, fraternal twins, and unrelated children
b. identical twins, unrelated children, and fraternal twins
c. unrelated children, identical twins, and fraternal twins
d. siblings, fraternal twins, and identical twins
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