Exam 13: The Rise of Applied Psychology 1892-1939

In contrast to Galton's approach to testing intelligence, Binet focused more on:

According to social scientists in the 1920s, the traditional American family role has been as an economic unit but this role in industrialized and urban America no longer existed. Social scientists had to provide a new function for the family and this turned out to be:

According to social scientists in the 1920s, the American family (including the Flaming Youth) was in trouble because:

The social and political movement of Progressivism valued which of the following:

In the early decades of the 1900s, Popular psychology simultaneously accomplished two apparently contradictory things. The two things were:

One of the goals of Münsterberg's work titled, Psychology and Industrial Efficiency was to find______.

When it comes to a vision for both Psychology and the Progressive movement in the U.S. which of the following drew a blue-print for the twentieth century American mind?

Great changes occurred in the United States from the 1890s to early 1900s. Describe some of these changes and how they influenced how the United States went from a country of "island communities to a nation-state". Explain the effects of Progressivism both on psychology and on society.

Which of the following best represents Robert Yerkes contribution to the WWI war effort?

The American psychometrician Lewis Terman argued that an important use of intelligence testing was to identify and socially control people at the low and high ends of general intelligence. The reason being:

Compared to Wundt's psychology, American Psychologists offered a science with pragmatic "cash value". Explain this statement by describing how the psychology of Functionalism and the Progressive movement in the U.S. influenced the rise of applied psychology.

In the 1930's the Eugenics movement in the U.S. was dying. However, it was not criticism that finally killed the U.S. eugenics movement it was ________.

Many of the Galtonian Alarmists advocated that the U.S. should:

The term "clinical psychology" was coined by Witmer to define a _______ and not a _______.

The author of the text points out that in the early decades of the 1900s Popular psychology simultaneously accomplished two apparently contradictory things. One was to provide a sense of sexual liberation from the outdated past religious morality and the second was _______________.

One of the goals of Münsterberg's work titled, Psychology and Industrial Efficiency was to find______.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf but grew up to be an intelligent, educated and successful adult. Applying Galton's approach to intelligence testing, an adult Helen Keller would most likely be classified as ________while Binet's test would most likely rate her as ________.

There were critics of the eugenics movement in the U.S. Which of the following is an example of arguments made at the time against some aspect of eugenics (e.g. sterilization etc)?

Describe the contributions Wilter Dill Scott and Robert Yerkes made to organizing psychology to service the nation in World War I.

Although based on flawed anthropology how did Margaret Mead's work in Samoa appear to apply to the nature/nurture debate? Was she right?