Question
The title of an anti-racist history of psychology by Robert Guthrie notes that “even [this animal] was white.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Albino strains of what animal’s “Norwegian” species are often used in laboratory experiments?
ANSWER: rats [or lab rats or laboratory rats; accept white rats; accept Norwegian rats, brown rats, Norway rats, common rats, street rats, or Rattus norvegicus; accept Even the Rat Was White; prompt on rodents or murids; reject “mice” or “mouse”]
[10h] Guthrie’s book dedicates a chapter to this “Father of Black Psychology,” who was the first African-American to earn a PhD in psychology. This man echoed Booker T. Washington’s views on African-American education.
ANSWER: Francis Sumner [or Francis Cecil Sumner]
[10m] Guthrie criticizes this psychometric measure of intelligence, which Charles Spearman developed to capture overall cognitive ability, as opposed to task-specific ability.
ANSWER: g factor [or Spearman’s g; or general intelligence factor; or general mental ability; prompt on mental ability]
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