Charles Darwin Exam 1 Questions with Certified Answers
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Charles Darwin Exam 1 Questions with Certified Answers
Darwinian Evolution - Answer-became a rallying cry and an excuse for capitalism and colonialism. Survival of the Fittist!
Herbert Spencer - Answer-promoted Social Darwinism that claimed that the government should not do anything to help ...
Charles Darwin Exam 1 Questions
with Certified Answers
Darwinian Evolution - Answer-became a rallying cry and an excuse for capitalism and
colonialism. Survival of the Fittist!
Herbert Spencer - Answer-promoted Social Darwinism that claimed that the government
should not do anything to help the poor because to do so would interfere with evolution
George Romanes - Answer-brought Darwin's thinking into the area of Comparative
Psychology
Sir Francis Galton - Answer-cousin of Darwin, wanted to apply Darwin's evolutionary
thinking to psychology
Galton - Answer-was a professor in the study of individualized differences, use of
statistics, quatitative measurement of abilities
Eugenics - Answer-a word coined by Galton
Alarmist eugenicists - Answer-advocated sterilizing "cacogenic", segregating the unfit
and restricting immigration
The case of "Buck vs. Bell" - Answer-allowed states to sterilize feeblemindedness
90% of intellectually abnormal children - Answer-are born to parents of normal
intelligence
Karl Pearson - Answer-developer of correlations, worked closely with Galton
Correlation research - Answer-is a strategy where the researcher attempts to determine
the relationship between the relationship between to variables in a population; in fact,
varying the independent variables
Correlations are - Answer-not causation
Whenever doing correlation - Answer-scatter plots are mandatory
Correlation - Answer-is likely to be low between GRE scores and grades of grad
students
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