Question 1

James Braid helped lend scientific respectability to mesmeric phenomena by suggesting which new name for them?

Accepted Answer

A)  artificial somnambulism 
B)  neuro-hypnology 
C)  the perfect crisis 
D)  hypno-magnetism 
A)  artificial somnambulism 
B)  neuro-hypnology 
C)  the perfect crisis 
D)  hypno-magnetism

Question 2

Match the definition with the term.
-animal magnetism

Accepted Answer

A) a peaceful,sleeplike trance state that could be induced in magnetic therapy,dur-ing which subjects showed increased suggestibility 
B) a hypothetical condition in which a subject enters a deep trance following a se-quence of stages similar to an epileptic seizure 
C) a hypothetical force or energy field in the human body that can become misa-ligned,leading to symptoms of illness 
A) a peaceful,sleeplike trance state that could be induced in magnetic therapy,dur-ing which subjects showed increased suggestibility 
B) a hypothetical condition in which a subject enters a deep trance following a se-quence of stages similar to an epileptic seizure 
C) a hypothetical force or energy field in the human body that can become misa-ligned,leading to symptoms of illness

Question 3

Match the idea with the individual.
-Gustave Le Bon

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 4

What was the Nancy-Salpêtrière controversy?

Accepted Answer

The Nancy School,led by Hippolyte Bernhe

James Braid helped lend scientific respectability to mesmeric phenomena by suggesting which new name for them?

Match the definition with the term. -animal magnetism

Match the idea with the individual. -Gustave Le Bon

What was the Nancy-Salpêtrière controversy?

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

James Braid helped lend scientific respectability to mesmeric phenomena by suggesting which new name for them?

Match the definition with the term. -animal magnetism

Match the idea with the individual. -Gustave Le Bon

What was the Nancy-Salpêtrière controversy?

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