Question 1

Floyd Allport made all of the following contributions to the establishment of social psychology except:

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A)  he completed the first PhD dissertation on an experimental social psychology topic. 
B)  he co-edited The Journal of Abnormal Psychology and added Social Psychology to its title and subject matter. 
C)  he wrote the first textbook devoted to experimental social psychology. 
D)  he created the first social psychology laboratory at Harvard University. 
A)  he completed the first PhD dissertation on an experimental social psychology topic. 
B)  he co-edited The Journal of Abnormal Psychology and added Social Psychology to its title and subject matter. 
C)  he wrote the first textbook devoted to experimental social psychology. 
D)  he created the first social psychology laboratory at Harvard University. D

Question 2

The model Charcot followed in specifying types and formes frustes for the illnesses he studied was first suggested by:

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A)  grand mal and petit mal epilepsy. 
B)  major and minor hysteria. 
C)  poliomyelitis. 
D)  hypnotism. 
A)  grand mal and petit mal epilepsy. 
B)  major and minor hysteria. 
C)  poliomyelitis. 
D)  hypnotism. A

Question 3

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

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A)  Jean Charcot 
B)  The Marquis de Puységur 
C)  Gustave Le Bon 
D)  James Esdaile 
A)  Jean Charcot 
B)  The Marquis de Puységur 
C)  Gustave Le Bon 
D)  James Esdaile D

Question 4

Binet and Henri's experiments showed that children's reported recall of recently observed stimuli:

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A)  was remarkably accurate even in young children. 
B)  was influenced by "leading questions" but not by neutral ones. 
C)  was strongly unreliable under all conditions. 
D)  was most accurate when they were simply given paper and a pencil and asked to write down what they remembered 
A)  was remarkably accurate even in young children. 
B)  was influenced by "leading questions" but not by neutral ones. 
C)  was strongly unreliable under all conditions. 
D)  was most accurate when they were simply given paper and a pencil and asked to write down what they remembered

Question 5

The Royal Commission appointed to investigate Franz Mesmer concluded that:

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A)  Mesmer was an exorcist. 
B)  Mesmer's theory of animal magnetism was worthless, so his cures must have been imaginary. 
C)  there was no such thing as animal magnetism, but Mesmer's cures were genuine. 
D)  Mesmer's work should be continued by more competent scientists. 
A)  Mesmer was an exorcist. 
B)  Mesmer's theory of animal magnetism was worthless, so his cures must have been imaginary. 
C)  there was no such thing as animal magnetism, but Mesmer's cures were genuine. 
D)  Mesmer's work should be continued by more competent scientists.

Question 6

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

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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 7

Who was the original founder of the Nancy School of hypnotism?

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A)  Auguste Liébeault 
B)  Hippolyte Bernheim 
C)  Joseph Delboeuf 
D)  Jean Charcot 
A)  Auguste Liébeault 
B)  Hippolyte Bernheim 
C)  Joseph Delboeuf 
D)  Jean Charcot

Question 8

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

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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

An incorrect implication of Mesmer's theory of animal magnetism was that:

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A)  the secret of hypnosis lies in the power of the hypnotist or magnetist. 
B)  illness is caused by disaligned magnetic fields in the body. 
C)  some people are natural healers because of their magnetic personalities. 
D)  all of the above 
A)  the secret of hypnosis lies in the power of the hypnotist or magnetist. 
B)  illness is caused by disaligned magnetic fields in the body. 
C)  some people are natural healers because of their magnetic personalities. 
D)  all of the above

Question 10

Solomon Asch's experiments showed that his subjects' greatest tendency to conform in giving incorrect responses occurred when:

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A)  they were outnumbered by a unanimous majority of three. 
B)  they were outnumbered by a unanimous majority of seven. 
C)  they were outnumbered by a majority of fourteen but with one other dissenter. 
D)  b and c were approximately equal in producing maximum conformity 
A)  they were outnumbered by a unanimous majority of three. 
B)  they were outnumbered by a unanimous majority of seven. 
C)  they were outnumbered by a majority of fourteen but with one other dissenter. 
D)  b and c were approximately equal in producing maximum conformity

Question 11

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

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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.

Question 12

According to Le Bon,hopes of achieving lasting international harmony are:

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A)  good, because scientific understanding of group behavior will make mutual understanding easier. 
B)  bad, because crowd behavior is essentially unpredictable. 
C)  uncertain, because they depend on the particular values of the leaders who happen to seize control. 
D)  bad, because the unconscious racial ideas of different national groups are unlikely to be recognized and dealt with. 
A)  good, because scientific understanding of group behavior will make mutual understanding easier. 
B)  bad, because crowd behavior is essentially unpredictable. 
C)  uncertain, because they depend on the particular values of the leaders who happen to seize control. 
D)  bad, because the unconscious racial ideas of different national groups are unlikely to be recognized and dealt with.

Question 13

Puységur's belief that hypnotized subjects will never act out suggestions running counter to their moral beliefs:

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A)  is now known to be true. 
B)  is now known to be false. 
C)  must be interpreted very cautiously, since people in any social influence situation may sometimes be induced to do things they would otherwise avoid. 
D)  is now known to be true for normal subjects, but is not always the case with disturbed people. 
A)  is now known to be true. 
B)  is now known to be false. 
C)  must be interpreted very cautiously, since people in any social influence situation may sometimes be induced to do things they would otherwise avoid. 
D)  is now known to be true for normal subjects, but is not always the case with disturbed people.

Question 14

When a few physicians in England,such as Elliotson and Ward,raised the possibility of using mesmerism as a surgical anaesthetic in the 1840s:

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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 15

The earliest laboratory studies investigating suggestibility and social influence were conducted by:

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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 16

Festinger and his colleagues discovered that the most effective way to change a person's attitude was:

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A)  to pay him or her well to publicly express a contrary attitude. 
B)  to get the person to publicly express a contrary attitude for a small reward. 
C)  to put the person in a group where many different opinions are expressed. 
D)  b and c both had strong positive effects 
A)  to pay him or her well to publicly express a contrary attitude. 
B)  to get the person to publicly express a contrary attitude for a small reward. 
C)  to put the person in a group where many different opinions are expressed. 
D)  b and c both had strong positive effects

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A)  low intelligence. 
B)  a general trait of suggestibility. 
C)  susceptibility to hysteria. 
D)  the fees patients had to pay. 
A)  low intelligence. 
B)  a general trait of suggestibility. 
C)  susceptibility to hysteria. 
D)  the fees patients had to pay.

Question 18

The ancient Greeks believed hysteria was caused by:

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A)  malingering. 
B)  an excess of overheated humours in the brain. 
C)  the wandering of the uterus to inappropriate body parts. 
D)  after-effects of traumatic experiences. 
A)  malingering. 
B)  an excess of overheated humours in the brain. 
C)  the wandering of the uterus to inappropriate body parts. 
D)  after-effects of traumatic experiences.

Question 19

With its regular sequence of stages ("epileptoid," "large movement," "hallucinatory," and "delirious"),Charcot's grande hysterie was:

Accepted Answer

A)  typical of most of the hysterics at the Salpêtrière. 
B)  considered by him the purest "type" of hysteria. 
C)  the result of localized neurological injuries. 
D)  often cured by Charcot through hypnosis. 
A)  typical of most of the hysterics at the Salpêtrière. 
B)  considered by him the purest "type" of hysteria. 
C)  the result of localized neurological injuries. 
D)  often cured by Charcot through hypnosis.

Question 20

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

Floyd Allport made all of the following contributions to the establishment of social psychology except:

The model Charcot followed in specifying types and formes frustes for the illnesses he studied was first suggested by:

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

Binet and Henri's experiments showed that children's reported recall of recently observed stimuli:

The Royal Commission appointed to investigate Franz Mesmer concluded that:

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

Who was the original founder of the Nancy School of hypnotism?

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

An incorrect implication of Mesmer's theory of animal magnetism was that:

Solomon Asch's experiments showed that his subjects' greatest tendency to conform in giving incorrect responses occurred when:

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

According to Le Bon,hopes of achieving lasting international harmony are:

Puységur's belief that hypnotized subjects will never act out suggestions running counter to their moral beliefs:

When a few physicians in England,such as Elliotson and Ward,raised the possibility of using mesmerism as a surgical anaesthetic in the 1840s:

The earliest laboratory studies investigating suggestibility and social influence were conducted by:

Festinger and his colleagues discovered that the most effective way to change a person's attitude was:

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

The ancient Greeks believed hysteria was caused by:

With its regular sequence of stages ("epileptoid," "large movement," "hallucinatory," and "delirious"),Charcot's grande hysterie was:

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

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

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Exam 10: Social Influence and Social Psychology: From Mesmer to Milgram and Beyond

Floyd Allport made all of the following contributions to the establishment of social psychology except:

The model Charcot followed in specifying types and formes frustes for the illnesses he studied was first suggested by:

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

Binet and Henri's experiments showed that children's reported recall of recently observed stimuli:

The Royal Commission appointed to investigate Franz Mesmer concluded that:

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

Who was the original founder of the Nancy School of hypnotism?

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

An incorrect implication of Mesmer's theory of animal magnetism was that:

Solomon Asch's experiments showed that his subjects' greatest tendency to conform in giving incorrect responses occurred when:

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

According to Le Bon,hopes of achieving lasting international harmony are:

Puységur's belief that hypnotized subjects will never act out suggestions running counter to their moral beliefs:

When a few physicians in England,such as Elliotson and Ward,raised the possibility of using mesmerism as a surgical anaesthetic in the 1840s:

The earliest laboratory studies investigating suggestibility and social influence were conducted by:

Festinger and his colleagues discovered that the most effective way to change a person's attitude was:

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

The ancient Greeks believed hysteria was caused by:

With its regular sequence of stages ("epileptoid," "large movement," "hallucinatory," and "delirious"),Charcot's grande hysterie was:

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

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

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