Question 1

Match the idea with the individual.
-James Esdaile

Accepted Answer

A) described a new state as a "perfect crisis" (later called artificial somnambulism) 
B) employed mesmerism as a form of anesthesia for surgical patients 
C) proposed "neurohypnology" as a term for the study of mesmeric phenomena 
A) described a new state as a "perfect crisis" (later called artificial somnambulism) 
B) employed mesmerism as a form of anesthesia for surgical patients 
C) proposed "neurohypnology" as a term for the study of mesmeric phenomena B

Question 2

Define social conformity.

Accepted Answer

A concept studied by Asch,Milgram,and other social psychologists to explain how individuals feel pressured to conform to the ideas and opinions of other group members.

Question 3

When "Good Father Liébeault" used hypnosis on his patients,he

Accepted Answer

A)  had an elaborate setting, with background music and flamboyantly dressed assistants, to enhance the effect of suggestibility. 
B)  did so only for demonstration purposes, because he believed no permanent cures could be effected by hypnosis. 
C)  proceeded very simply, first suggesting they would go to sleep and then that their symptoms would disappear. 
D)  took advantage of the opportunity to explore their suppressed emotional life. 
A)  had an elaborate setting, with background music and flamboyantly dressed assistants, to enhance the effect of suggestibility. 
B)  did so only for demonstration purposes, because he believed no permanent cures could be effected by hypnosis. 
C)  proceeded very simply, first suggesting they would go to sleep and then that their symptoms would disappear. 
D)  took advantage of the opportunity to explore their suppressed emotional life. C

Question 4

Match the idea with the individual.
-Hippolyte Bernheim

Accepted Answer

A) argued that hypnotic susceptibility and hysteria were essentially the same thing 
B) argued that susceptibility to hypnosis is simply one aspect of suggestibility more generally 
C) described crowd behavior as similar to hypnotic effects 
A) argued that hypnotic susceptibility and hysteria were essentially the same thing 
B) argued that susceptibility to hypnosis is simply one aspect of suggestibility more generally 
C) described crowd behavior as similar to hypnotic effects

Question 5

What happened when a few physicians in England,such as Elliotson and Ward,raised the possibility of using mesmerism as a surgical anaesthetic in the 1840s?

Accepted Answer

A)  They were roundly ignored by their colleagues. 
B)  They were ridiculed or actively persecuted by the established medical community. 
C)  They established their point successfully for a short time, until hypnotism was superseded by chemical anaesthetics. 
D)  Their early experiments were failures, so they abandoned the idea. 
A)  They were roundly ignored by their colleagues. 
B)  They were ridiculed or actively persecuted by the established medical community. 
C)  They established their point successfully for a short time, until hypnotism was superseded by chemical anaesthetics. 
D)  Their early experiments were failures, so they abandoned the idea.

Question 6

Match the definition with the term.
-posthypnotic amnesia

Accepted Answer

A) the completion of a suggested act after awakening from a trance state. 
B) the forgetting of events from a trance state upon awakening from it. 
C) the process of inducing a mental state of concentration and relaxation,resulting in a state of high suggestibility in a subject. 
A) the completion of a suggested act after awakening from a trance state. 
B) the forgetting of events from a trance state upon awakening from it. 
C) the process of inducing a mental state of concentration and relaxation,resulting in a state of high suggestibility in a subject.

Question 7

Match the definition with the term.
-social contagion

Accepted Answer

A) the pressure individuals feel to align their opinions and behaviors with those of other group members 
B) the spread of ideas,attitudes,or behavior patterns in a group through imitation and conformity 
C) increases in the strength or intensity of behaviors performed within a social or group setting 
A) the pressure individuals feel to align their opinions and behaviors with those of other group members 
B) the spread of ideas,attitudes,or behavior patterns in a group through imitation and conformity 
C) increases in the strength or intensity of behaviors performed within a social or group setting

Question 8

Le Bon recommended that crowd leaders make use of which of the following practices or attitudes to maximize their effectiveness?

Accepted Answer

A)  sincerity, fervor, affirmation 
B)  repetition, enthusiasm, effective timing of appeals 
C)  affirmation, repetition, pre-placing of followers in the crowd 
D)  reason, sincerity, effective timing of appeals 
A)  sincerity, fervor, affirmation 
B)  repetition, enthusiasm, effective timing of appeals 
C)  affirmation, repetition, pre-placing of followers in the crowd 
D)  reason, sincerity, effective timing of appeals

Question 9

Match the definition with the term.
-posthypnotic suggestion

Accepted Answer

A) the completion of a suggested act after awakening from a trance state. 
B) the forgetting of events from a trance state upon awakening from it. 
C) the process of inducing a mental state of concentration and relaxation,resulting in a state of high suggestibility in a subject. 
A) the completion of a suggested act after awakening from a trance state. 
B) the forgetting of events from a trance state upon awakening from it. 
C) the process of inducing a mental state of concentration and relaxation,resulting in a state of high suggestibility in a subject.

Question 10

Which of the following did Mesmer NOT believe to be true about animal magnetism or hypnotism?

Accepted Answer

A)  The secret of hypnosis lies in the power of the hypnotist or magnetist. 
B)  Illness is caused by misaligned magnetic fields in the body. 
C)  Some people are natural healers because of their magnetic personalities. 
D)  Supernatural forces are involved in the induction of the magnetic state. 
A)  The secret of hypnosis lies in the power of the hypnotist or magnetist. 
B)  Illness is caused by misaligned magnetic fields in the body. 
C)  Some people are natural healers because of their magnetic personalities. 
D)  Supernatural forces are involved in the induction of the magnetic state.

Question 11

Which one of the following figures was a student of Franz Mesmer who went on to make independent discoveries about the mesmeric state?

Accepted Answer

A)  Johann Joseph Gassner 
B)  Benjamin Franklin 
C)  Marquis de Puységur 
D)  Hippolyte Bernheim 
A)  Johann Joseph Gassner 
B)  Benjamin Franklin 
C)  Marquis de Puységur 
D)  Hippolyte Bernheim

Question 12

Solomon Asch's experiments showed that his subjects' greatest tendency to conform in giving incorrect responses occurred when they were outnumbered by

Accepted Answer

A)  a unanimous majority of three. 
B)  a unanimous majority of seven. 
C)  a majority of fourteen but with one other dissenter. 
D)  any unanimous majority as long as it was greater than four. 
A)  a unanimous majority of three. 
B)  a unanimous majority of seven. 
C)  a majority of fourteen but with one other dissenter. 
D)  any unanimous majority as long as it was greater than four.

Question 13

Which of the following is the title of an important book that introduced the concept of cognitive dissonance?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Handbook of Social Psychology 
B)  Deception in Psychology 
C)  When Prophecy Fails 
D)  Obedience to Authority 
A)  The Handbook of Social Psychology 
B)  Deception in Psychology 
C)  When Prophecy Fails 
D)  Obedience to Authority

Question 14

When people in a crowd begin behaving the same way they see their neighbors behaving,they illustrate

Accepted Answer

A)  hypersuggestibility. 
B)  the social contagion effect. 
C)  a craze. 
D)  the autosuggestive effect. 
A)  hypersuggestibility. 
B)  the social contagion effect. 
C)  a craze. 
D)  the autosuggestive effect.

Question 15

The notion that groups or crowds could constitute superorganisms or group minds going beyond the combined reactions of their individual members was referred to by __________ as the __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Gustave Le Bon; group fallacy 
B)  Floyd Allport; group fallacy 
C)  Gustave Le Bon; group cohesion effect 
D)  Floyd Allport; group cohesion effect 
A)  Gustave Le Bon; group fallacy 
B)  Floyd Allport; group fallacy 
C)  Gustave Le Bon; group cohesion effect 
D)  Floyd Allport; group cohesion effect

Question 16

Match the publication with the author.
-Gustave Le Bon

Accepted Answer

A) On Suggestion and Its Therapeutic Applications 
B) Social Psychology 
C) The Crowd 
D) When Prophecy Fails 
A) On Suggestion and Its Therapeutic Applications 
B) Social Psychology 
C) The Crowd 
D) When Prophecy Fails

Question 17

__________ believed that only hysterics were hypnotizable,while __________ argued that normal people could be hypnotized as well.

Accepted Answer

A)  Charcot; Le Bon 
B)  The Nancy School; Le Bon 
C)  The Nancy School; Charcot 
D)  Charcot; the Nancy School 
A)  Charcot; Le Bon 
B)  The Nancy School; Le Bon 
C)  The Nancy School; Charcot 
D)  Charcot; the Nancy School

Question 18

Match the publication with the author.
-Leon Festinger

Accepted Answer

A) On Suggestion and Its Therapeutic Applications 
B) Social Psychology 
C) The Crowd 
D) When Prophecy Fails 
A) On Suggestion and Its Therapeutic Applications 
B) Social Psychology 
C) The Crowd 
D) When Prophecy Fails

Question 19

Match the definition with the term.
-baquet

Accepted Answer

A) a condition in which patients experience physiological symptoms without obvious organic causes 
B) a form of artificial somnambulism in which one goes into a deep trance state 
C) a general trait defined as "the aptitude to transform an idea into an act" 
D) a tub filled with water and iron filings,featuring metal rods inserted into it with protruding handles onto which patients grasped 
A) a condition in which patients experience physiological symptoms without obvious organic causes 
B) a form of artificial somnambulism in which one goes into a deep trance state 
C) a general trait defined as "the aptitude to transform an idea into an act" 
D) a tub filled with water and iron filings,featuring metal rods inserted into it with protruding handles onto which patients grasped

Question 20

Match the definition with the term.
-false memory

Accepted Answer

A) fictitious recollections of events that can be created through suggestion 
B) the experience of holding two or more incompatible or contradictory beliefs,which produces such an uncomfortable state that one becomes motivated to re-lieve it 
C) the finding that most people can be interconnected through a small chain of mu-tual acquaintances 
D) the idea that crowds can constitute superordinate entities or group minds,which are more than the combined reactions of their individual members 
A) fictitious recollections of events that can be created through suggestion 
B) the experience of holding two or more incompatible or contradictory beliefs,which produces such an uncomfortable state that one becomes motivated to re-lieve it 
C) the finding that most people can be interconnected through a small chain of mu-tual acquaintances 
D) the idea that crowds can constitute superordinate entities or group minds,which are more than the combined reactions of their individual members

Match the idea with the individual. -James Esdaile

Define social conformity.

When "Good Father Liébeault" used hypnosis on his patients,he

Match the idea with the individual. -Hippolyte Bernheim

What happened when a few physicians in England,such as Elliotson and Ward,raised the possibility of using mesmerism as a surgical anaesthetic in the 1840s?

Match the definition with the term. -posthypnotic amnesia

Match the definition with the term. -social contagion

Le Bon recommended that crowd leaders make use of which of the following practices or attitudes to maximize their effectiveness?

Match the definition with the term. -posthypnotic suggestion

Which of the following did Mesmer NOT believe to be true about animal magnetism or hypnotism?

Which one of the following figures was a student of Franz Mesmer who went on to make independent discoveries about the mesmeric state?

Solomon Asch's experiments showed that his subjects' greatest tendency to conform in giving incorrect responses occurred when they were outnumbered by

Which of the following is the title of an important book that introduced the concept of cognitive dissonance?

When people in a crowd begin behaving the same way they see their neighbors behaving,they illustrate

The notion that groups or crowds could constitute superorganisms or group minds going beyond the combined reactions of their individual members was referred to by as the .

Match the publication with the author. -Gustave Le Bon

believed that only hysterics were hypnotizable,while argued that normal people could be hypnotized as well.

Match the publication with the author. -Leon Festinger

Match the definition with the term. -baquet

Match the definition with the term. -false memory

Introduction: Studying the History of Psychology

Foundational Ideas from Antiquity

Pioneering Philosophers of Mind: Descartes, Locke, and Leibniz

Physiologists of Mind: Brain Scientists from Gall to Penfield

The Sensing and Perceiving Mind: From Kant through the Gestalt Psychologists

Wundt and the Establishment of Experimental Psychology

The Evolving Mind: Darwin and His Psychological Legacy

Measuring the Mind: Galton and Individual Differences

American Pioneers: James, Hall, Calkins, and Thorndike

Psychology as the Science of Behavior: Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner

Mind in Conflict: Freudian Psychoanalysis and Its Successors

Psychology Gets “Personality”: Allport, Maslow, and the Broadening Field

The Developing Mind: Binet, Piaget, and the Study of Intelligence

Minds, Machines, and Cognitive Psychology

Applying Psychology: From the Witness Stand to the Workplace

The Art and Science of Clinical Psychology

Filters

Exam 11: Social Influence and Social Psychology: From Mesmer to Milgram and Beyond

Match the idea with the individual. -James Esdaile

Define social conformity.

When "Good Father Liébeault" used hypnosis on his patients,he

Match the idea with the individual. -Hippolyte Bernheim

What happened when a few physicians in England,such as Elliotson and Ward,raised the possibility of using mesmerism as a surgical anaesthetic in the 1840s?

Match the definition with the term. -posthypnotic amnesia

Match the definition with the term. -social contagion

Le Bon recommended that crowd leaders make use of which of the following practices or attitudes to maximize their effectiveness?

Match the definition with the term. -posthypnotic suggestion

Which of the following did Mesmer NOT believe to be true about animal magnetism or hypnotism?

Which one of the following figures was a student of Franz Mesmer who went on to make independent discoveries about the mesmeric state?

Solomon Asch's experiments showed that his subjects' greatest tendency to conform in giving incorrect responses occurred when they were outnumbered by

Which of the following is the title of an important book that introduced the concept of cognitive dissonance?

When people in a crowd begin behaving the same way they see their neighbors behaving,they illustrate

The notion that groups or crowds could constitute superorganisms or group minds going beyond the combined reactions of their individual members was referred to by __________ as the __________.

Match the publication with the author. -Gustave Le Bon

__________ believed that only hysterics were hypnotizable,while __________ argued that normal people could be hypnotized as well.

Match the publication with the author. -Leon Festinger

Match the definition with the term. -baquet

Match the definition with the term. -false memory

Introduction: Studying the History of Psychology

Foundational Ideas from Antiquity

Pioneering Philosophers of Mind: Descartes, Locke, and Leibniz

Physiologists of Mind: Brain Scientists from Gall to Penfield

The Sensing and Perceiving Mind: From Kant through the Gestalt Psychologists

Wundt and the Establishment of Experimental Psychology

The Evolving Mind: Darwin and His Psychological Legacy

Measuring the Mind: Galton and Individual Differences

American Pioneers: James, Hall, Calkins, and Thorndike

Psychology as the Science of Behavior: Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner

Mind in Conflict: Freudian Psychoanalysis and Its Successors

Psychology Gets “Personality”: Allport, Maslow, and the Broadening Field

The Developing Mind: Binet, Piaget, and the Study of Intelligence

Minds, Machines, and Cognitive Psychology

Applying Psychology: From the Witness Stand to the Workplace

The Art and Science of Clinical Psychology

Filters

The notion that groups or crowds could constitute superorganisms or group minds going beyond the combined reactions of their individual members was referred to by as the .

believed that only hysterics were hypnotizable,while argued that normal people could be hypnotized as well.