What Was Goddard's Position with Respect to Heredity and Intelligence

question 11

Multiple Choice

What was Goddard's position with respect to heredity and intelligence?

• A) he was a strict hereditarian who conceived of intelligence in simple-minded Mendelian terms
• B) he believed that much undesirable behavior was due to inherited mental deficiency
• C) he called for the colonization of the mentally defective
• D) all of the above

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