Question 1

Match the study with the researcher.
-Stanley Milgram

Accepted Answer

A) a study of suggestion in which children were asked to recall a number of items seen on a poster; children were most accurate when simply asked to provide de-scriptions,rather than asked direct questions,about what they had seen 
B) asked children to wind fishing reels alone and in pairs and found some children wound the reels faster or slower in the presence of others,demonstrating social enhancement and inhibition of performance 
C) asked individuals to pass along the name and address of a target person in Boston to those they thought likely to know the target,which produced an average of just six intermediaries,a result known as the small world phenomenon 
A) a study of suggestion in which children were asked to recall a number of items seen on a poster; children were most accurate when simply asked to provide de-scriptions,rather than asked direct questions,about what they had seen 
B) asked children to wind fishing reels alone and in pairs and found some children wound the reels faster or slower in the presence of others,demonstrating social enhancement and inhibition of performance 
C) asked individuals to pass along the name and address of a target person in Boston to those they thought likely to know the target,which produced an average of just six intermediaries,a result known as the small world phenomenon

Question 2

The "lost in the mall" technique has been used to demonstrated that

Accepted Answer

A)  subjects' memory could be improved by training them to observe more carefully. 
B)  false memories could be produced through suggestive manipulations. 
C)  subjects' can be made to lose their bearings through subtle suggestions. 
D)  subjects can most correctly remember emotion-laden experiences. 
A)  subjects' memory could be improved by training them to observe more carefully. 
B)  false memories could be produced through suggestive manipulations. 
C)  subjects' can be made to lose their bearings through subtle suggestions. 
D)  subjects can most correctly remember emotion-laden experiences.

Question 3

The experiments of __________ were partly inspired by concerns arising from events arising in Nazi Germany during World War II.

Accepted Answer

A)  Solomon Asch and Stanley Milgram 
B)  Leon Festinger and Elizabeth Loftus 
C)  Floyd Allport and Morton Prince 
D)  John Dashiell and Wolfgang Köhler 
A)  Solomon Asch and Stanley Milgram 
B)  Leon Festinger and Elizabeth Loftus 
C)  Floyd Allport and Morton Prince 
D)  John Dashiell and Wolfgang Köhler

Question 4

Which of the following is the best current assessment of Puységur's belief that hypnotized subjects can do things that would be impossible for them normally?

Accepted Answer

A)  It is now known to be true. 
B)  It is now known to be false. 
C)  It is now known that hypnotized subjects may do things they would normally think are impossible, since hypnosis may make them more relaxed and confident. 
D)  It is now known to be true for normal subjects, but not always for mentally disturbed people. 
A)  It is now known to be true. 
B)  It is now known to be false. 
C)  It is now known that hypnotized subjects may do things they would normally think are impossible, since hypnosis may make them more relaxed and confident. 
D)  It is now known to be true for normal subjects, but not always for mentally disturbed people.

Question 5

Match the idea with the individual.
-Jean-Martin Charcot

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 6

Match the study with the researcher.
-Norman Triplett

Accepted Answer

A) a study of suggestion in which children were asked to recall a number of items seen on a poster; children were most accurate when simply asked to provide de-scriptions,rather than asked direct questions,about what they had seen 
B) asked children to wind fishing reels alone and in pairs and found some children wound the reels faster or slower in the presence of others,demonstrating social enhancement and inhibition of performance 
C) asked individuals to pass along the name and address of a target person in Boston to those they thought likely to know the target,which produced an average of just six intermediaries,a result known as the small world phenomenon 
A) a study of suggestion in which children were asked to recall a number of items seen on a poster; children were most accurate when simply asked to provide de-scriptions,rather than asked direct questions,about what they had seen 
B) asked children to wind fishing reels alone and in pairs and found some children wound the reels faster or slower in the presence of others,demonstrating social enhancement and inhibition of performance 
C) asked individuals to pass along the name and address of a target person in Boston to those they thought likely to know the target,which produced an average of just six intermediaries,a result known as the small world phenomenon

Question 7

Who conducted the earliest laboratory studies investigating suggestibility and social influence?

Accepted Answer

A)  Gustav Le Bon 
B)  Alfred Binet 
C)  Solomon Asch 
D)  Hippolyte Bernheim 
A)  Gustav Le Bon 
B)  Alfred Binet 
C)  Solomon Asch 
D)  Hippolyte Bernheim

Question 8

Match the definition with the term.
-group fallacy

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

Question 9

The Stanford Prison Experiment was conducted by whom?

Accepted Answer

A)  Philip Zimbardo 
B)  Stanley Milgram 
C)  Leon Festinger 
D)  Elizabeth Loftus 
A)  Philip Zimbardo 
B)  Stanley Milgram 
C)  Leon Festinger 
D)  Elizabeth Loftus

Question 10

Which of the following is true of Mesmer's medical dissertation,which he wrote years before his first documented magnetic cures?

Accepted Answer

A)  It spelled out the essential details of his theory of animal magnetism. 
B)  It emphasized the importance of the contagion effect in groups of people. 
C)  It asserted that the planets and stars directly influence people through the effect of "animal gravitation." 
D)  It concerned the anatomy of the brain. 
A)  It spelled out the essential details of his theory of animal magnetism. 
B)  It emphasized the importance of the contagion effect in groups of people. 
C)  It asserted that the planets and stars directly influence people through the effect of "animal gravitation." 
D)  It concerned the anatomy of the brain.

Question 11

Subjects in Solomon Asch's conformity experiments were asked to make judgments about what?

Accepted Answer

A)  the relative loudness of presented musical tones 
B)  things they remembered from a short movie they had just seen 
C)  the different colors of printed words they had just seen 
D)  the lengths of lines that had been presented to them as stimuli 
A)  the relative loudness of presented musical tones 
B)  things they remembered from a short movie they had just seen 
C)  the different colors of printed words they had just seen 
D)  the lengths of lines that had been presented to them as stimuli

Question 12

Match the publication with the author.
-Floyd Allport

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 13

Concerns raised by experiments such as Milgram's and Zimbardo's have resulted in requirements that most social psychologists must now do which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  have doctors or counsellors on call during every experimental procedure 
B)  provide immediate and detailed feedback to subjects at the conclusion of their participation in experiments 
C)  avoid experimental situations dealing with controversial issues altogether 
D)  obtain informed consent from all subjects before they participate in experiments 
A)  have doctors or counsellors on call during every experimental procedure 
B)  provide immediate and detailed feedback to subjects at the conclusion of their participation in experiments 
C)  avoid experimental situations dealing with controversial issues altogether 
D)  obtain informed consent from all subjects before they participate in experiments

Question 14

Which of the following did Puységur INCORRECTLY believe to be an easily produced effect in a good hypnotic subject?

Accepted Answer

A)  abilities enhanced beyond what is possible in the normal state 
B)  amnesia for the events of the trance 
C)  paralyses which can move about the body upon suggestion by the hypnotist 
D)  greatly heightened general suggestibility 
A)  abilities enhanced beyond what is possible in the normal state 
B)  amnesia for the events of the trance 
C)  paralyses which can move about the body upon suggestion by the hypnotist 
D)  greatly heightened general suggestibility

Question 15

Match the study with the researcher(s).
-Philip Zimbardo

Accepted Answer

A) a study of group dynamics among members of a doomsday cult 
B) an investigation of conformity where subjects were asked to judge the length of lines within a group of confederates 
C) the Stanford Prison Experiment 
D) the use of the "lost in the mall" technique to induce false memories 
A) a study of group dynamics among members of a doomsday cult 
B) an investigation of conformity where subjects were asked to judge the length of lines within a group of confederates 
C) the Stanford Prison Experiment 
D) the use of the "lost in the mall" technique to induce false memories

Question 16

Match the definition with the term.
-lucid sleep

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 17

Which early investigator of mesmerism/hypnotism first shifted the emphasis of explanation from the powers of the hypnotist to the susceptibilities of the subject?

Accepted Answer

A)  José Custódio de Faria 
B)  Franz Anton Mesmer 
C)  Marquis de Puységur 
D)  Gustave Le Bon 
A)  José Custódio de Faria 
B)  Franz Anton Mesmer 
C)  Marquis de Puységur 
D)  Gustave Le Bon

Question 18

Match the study with the researcher.
-Alfred Binet

Accepted Answer

A) a study of suggestion in which children were asked to recall a number of items seen on a poster; children were most accurate when simply asked to provide de-scriptions,rather than asked direct questions,about what they had seen 
B) asked children to wind fishing reels alone and in pairs and found some children wound the reels faster or slower in the presence of others,demonstrating social enhancement and inhibition of performance 
C) asked individuals to pass along the name and address of a target person in Boston to those they thought likely to know the target,which produced an average of just six intermediaries,a result known as the small world phenomenon 
A) a study of suggestion in which children were asked to recall a number of items seen on a poster; children were most accurate when simply asked to provide de-scriptions,rather than asked direct questions,about what they had seen 
B) asked children to wind fishing reels alone and in pairs and found some children wound the reels faster or slower in the presence of others,demonstrating social enhancement and inhibition of performance 
C) asked individuals to pass along the name and address of a target person in Boston to those they thought likely to know the target,which produced an average of just six intermediaries,a result known as the small world phenomenon

Question 19

Who,after learning a painful personal lesson about the effects of unintended suggestion in experiments,came to refer to such suggestions as "the cholera of psychology"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Charles Féré 
B)  Jean Charcot 
C)  Alfred Binet 
D)  Hippolyte Bernheim 
A)  Charles Féré 
B)  Jean Charcot 
C)  Alfred Binet 
D)  Hippolyte Bernheim

Question 20

Match the definition with the term.
-hypnotism

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.

Match the study with the researcher. -Stanley Milgram

The "lost in the mall" technique has been used to demonstrated that

The experiments of __________ were partly inspired by concerns arising from events arising in Nazi Germany during World War II.

Which of the following is the best current assessment of Puységur's belief that hypnotized subjects can do things that would be impossible for them normally?

Match the idea with the individual. -Jean-Martin Charcot

Match the study with the researcher. -Norman Triplett

Who conducted the earliest laboratory studies investigating suggestibility and social influence?

Match the definition with the term. -group fallacy

The Stanford Prison Experiment was conducted by whom?

Which of the following is true of Mesmer's medical dissertation,which he wrote years before his first documented magnetic cures?

Subjects in Solomon Asch's conformity experiments were asked to make judgments about what?

Match the publication with the author. -Floyd Allport

Concerns raised by experiments such as Milgram's and Zimbardo's have resulted in requirements that most social psychologists must now do which of the following?

Which of the following did Puységur INCORRECTLY believe to be an easily produced effect in a good hypnotic subject?

Match the study with the researcher(s). -Philip Zimbardo

Match the definition with the term. -lucid sleep

Which early investigator of mesmerism/hypnotism first shifted the emphasis of explanation from the powers of the hypnotist to the susceptibilities of the subject?

Match the study with the researcher. -Alfred Binet

Who,after learning a painful personal lesson about the effects of unintended suggestion in experiments,came to refer to such suggestions as "the cholera of psychology"?

Match the definition with the term. -hypnotism

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

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

Match the study with the researcher. -Stanley Milgram

The "lost in the mall" technique has been used to demonstrated that

The experiments of __________ were partly inspired by concerns arising from events arising in Nazi Germany during World War II.

Which of the following is the best current assessment of Puységur's belief that hypnotized subjects can do things that would be impossible for them normally?

Match the idea with the individual. -Jean-Martin Charcot

Match the study with the researcher. -Norman Triplett

Who conducted the earliest laboratory studies investigating suggestibility and social influence?

Match the definition with the term. -group fallacy

The Stanford Prison Experiment was conducted by whom?

Which of the following is true of Mesmer's medical dissertation,which he wrote years before his first documented magnetic cures?

Subjects in Solomon Asch's conformity experiments were asked to make judgments about what?

Match the publication with the author. -Floyd Allport

Concerns raised by experiments such as Milgram's and Zimbardo's have resulted in requirements that most social psychologists must now do which of the following?

Which of the following did Puységur INCORRECTLY believe to be an easily produced effect in a good hypnotic subject?

Match the study with the researcher(s). -Philip Zimbardo

Match the definition with the term. -lucid sleep

Which early investigator of mesmerism/hypnotism first shifted the emphasis of explanation from the powers of the hypnotist to the susceptibilities of the subject?

Match the study with the researcher. -Alfred Binet

Who,after learning a painful personal lesson about the effects of unintended suggestion in experiments,came to refer to such suggestions as "the cholera of psychology"?

Match the definition with the term. -hypnotism

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

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