1. What is true about the eugenics movement?

A. we do not see any traces of it in society today

B. it lie at the heart of many of the atrocities of the 20th century (1900s)

C. we do not see any traces of it in science today

D. it made the argument that behavior is learned, so we all potentially intellectually equal

2. Phrenology:

A. Claims that we can understand people's intellectual capabilities from bumps on their skull

B. Gave rise to the field of craniometry/craniology

C. Is confirmed to be true

D. Claims that bumps on the skull exist because some parts of the brain are bigger or smaller than other parts

3. From your reading of the paper "Skeletons in the Closet," drawings of women's and men's skeletons:

A. were sometimes made to emphasize the social roles the artist felt women and men should have

B. were always made strictly to scale, with no modifications by the artist

C. were always based on women's skeletons only

D. were always based on men's skeletons only

4. Craniology/craniometry was used to:

A. show why some people lost the ability to speak fluently'

B. "scientifically" measure bumps on the surface of the head

C. explain why John D. Rockefeller was so rich

D. "scientifically" reinforce social prejudices

5. Eugenics as a school of thought:

A. can still be seen in the behavior of some government agencies today

B. never had that large an impact on the world so we do not really need to worry about it

C. has never played a role in the field of psychology

D. has ceased to affect human politics today

6. One interesting thing about ____ is that he turned out to be a ____ with an average-sized _____.

A. Broca; craniologist; skull

B. Broca; neuroscientist; vocabulary

C. James; psychologist; laboratory

D. James; phrenologist; frontal bump

7. Bell and Magendie figured out that sensory information enters the spinal cord through the back or dorsal side, and motor information exists from the belly or ventral side. Why was this discovery important?

A. it suggested there should be intelligence differences based on brain size

B. it was not really important, just a cool fact about the spinal cord

C. it illustrated that the nervous system is organized

D. it showed that there were emotional differences among people

8. Helmholtz and Hering:

A. Argued publicly online about the color of a dress

B. Each had theories of color vision

C. Argued about whether our perception is mostly based on the activity of our sensory neurons or processing in the brain

D. Both turned out to be right about how perception works

9. Christine Ladd Franklin is notable because:

A. She had excellent ideas about how vision evolved

B. She did not have the support of her family

C. She was never able to pursue science because of her gender

D. She was a woman in the field of perception at a time when this was unsual