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

Bernheim,on finding that lower-class patients were especially responsive to his hypnotic suggestions,argued that hypnotizability must be closely related to what?

Match the definition with the term. -small world phenomenon

What is the small world phenomenon?

The Royal Commission appointed to investigate Franz Mesmer concluded what?

Which two figures were most responsible for bringing the previously unrespectable subject of mesmerism/hypnotism into the scientific mainstream?

Match the definition with the term. -social facilitation

Which two figures conducted laboratory experiments in social psychology before social psychology was established as a field and are therefore considered "anticipators" rather than "founders" of the field?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of crowds,compared to individuals,according to Le Bon?

Match the publication with the author. -Hippolyte Bernheim

__________ was a Gestalt-trained psychologist who conducted pioneering research on the effects of authoritarian versus democratic leadership styles.

Match the definition with the term. -social conformity

Match the study with the researcher(s). -Solomon Asch

In the aftermath of the furor aroused by his obedience research,Stanley Milgram conducted studies of which of the following?

Which of the following was true of patients who responded most strongly to Mesmer's magnetic inductions? They

Match the study with the researcher(s). -Elizabeth Loftus

Which of the following was one of the pioneers in the use of mesmerism as a surgical anesthetic?

Festinger and his colleagues discovered that the most effective way to change people's attitudes about something was to

The ancient Greeks believed hysteria was caused by

What was Franz Mesmer's baquet?

Match the definition with the term. -grand hypnotisme