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1. Essentially, the first generation of American psychologists was educated by Wundt yet he had less influence on
American psychology than did Darwin and Galton. Discuss the reasons for this paradox.
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
POINTS: 1

2. Describe the economic forces that influenced the growth of applied psychology in America.
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
POINTS: 1

3. Describe Cattell's contributions to psychology. How did these contributions alter the character of American
psychology? How did he make psychology known to the public?
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
POINTS: 1
NOTES: WWW

4. Describe, compare, and contrast the approaches to mental and intelligence testing taken by Cattell and Binet.
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
POINTS: 1

5. Discuss and provide supporting evidence for your analysis of the statement that "Intelligence testing has been both
psychology's greatest contribution to society and its biggest source of shame."
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
POINTS: 1

6. Describe, compare, and contrast the applied psychology of Lightner Witmer and Walter Dill Scott.
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
POINTS: 1

7. Discuss Münsterberg's contributions to I/O psychology, psychotherapy, and forensic psychology.


ANSWER: Answer not provided.
POINTS: 1

8. Discuss the role of women in at least two different areas of applied psychology. Why was it difficult for them to make
the kinds of professional contributions made by men?
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
POINTS: 1
NOTES: WWW

9. Why did the FDA take Coca Cola to court in 1911?


a. Because one of Coke's ingredients was cocaine.
b. Because one of Coke's ingredients was caffeine.
c. Because of illegal hiring practices.
d. Because of irregularities in the pricing of their stock.
e. Because they made unsupported claims in advertising.
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: FDA Raid: Target Coca-Cola

10. Who was hired by Coca Cola to perform research in their 1911 court case?
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a. James McKeen Cattell
b. Hugo Munsterberg
c. Walter Dill Scott
d. Robert Yerkes
e. Harry Hollingworth
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: FDA Raid: Target Coca-Cola

11. The main reason Wundt's and Titchener's systems did not survive in the United States was that they ____.
a. were German psychologies
b. were not pragmatic
c. were not fruitful
d. were opposed to the behavioristic bent of Americans
e. relied on introspection
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Toward a Practical Psychology

12. According to Cattell, by 1895 psychology was ____.


a. a required subject for an undergraduate degree
b. being irreparably damaged by the Structuralist-functionalist quarreling
c. still synonymous with metaphysics for most Americans
d. most vigorously opposed by the traditional natural sciences
e. relatively unpopular in those few colleges that offered courses in it
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Toward a Practical Psychology

13. In 1900, the American public's response to the new science of psychology was ____.
a. concern about psychologists' ability to read people's minds
b. to reject it until World War I and the development of intelligence tests
c. to embrace it
d. to reject functionalism but accept structuralism
e. to reject structuralism but accept functionalism
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Toward a Practical Psychology
NOTES: WWW

14. At the end of the 19th century, the field of ____ demanded the application of psychological principles to practical
problems with rise in private school education.
a. physiology
b. military science
c. education
d. social casework
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e. criminal justice
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Toward a Practical Psychology

15. What persuaded psychologists to apply their expertise to problems in education?


a. World War I and immigration
b. An increase in public school enrollment
c. Intelligence testing
d. The popular appeal and status of psychology
e. James's Talks to Teachers and the need to test and educate newly arrived immigrants
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Toward a Practical Psychology

16. Cattell's work was novel in its focus on ____.


a. conscious content
b. conscious process
c. human abilities
d. personality
e. reaction time studies
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Mental Testing

17. Cattell's interest in psychology was provoked by ____.


a. Fechner's book on psychophysics
b. Wundt's book on experimental psychology
c. James's Principles
d. Freud's papers on cocaine
e. his own use of drugs
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

18. Cattell wrote that he found himself "making brilliant discoveries in science and philosophy" when ____.
a. with Wundt at Leipzig
b. with Hall at Johns Hopkins
c. with James at Harvard
d. using drugs
e. studying psychophysics
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

19. Cattell's Ph.D. was earned with ____.


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a. Wundt at Leipzig
b. James at Harvard
c. Titchener at Cornell
d. Angell at Chicago
e. Hall at Johns Hopkins
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

20. Cattell's interest in mental tests probably was aroused most by ____.
a. his work on reaction times in Wundt's laboratory
b. Freud's development of projective tests
c. Hall's use of questionnaires
d. his meeting with Galton while at Cambridge University
e. Hall's child study movement
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)
NOTES: WWW

21. Which of the following methods did Cattell develop?


a. the chi-square test
b. the order-of-merit ranking method
c. correlational methods
d. the eugenics formula
e. the standard deviation formula
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

22. Galton's influence on Cattell led to ____.


a. Cattell promoting the use of experimental and control groups
b. Cattell's method of average error
c. Cattell's work on the army Alpha and army Beta tests
d. Witmer's work with dyslexic children
e. the study of large groups rather than single subjects
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

23. Which of the following techniques became more widely applied in American psychology than in England?
a. graphic display of data
b. correlation coefficient
c. chi-square test
d. anthropometric techniques
e. correlation coefficient and chi-square test
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ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

24. Cattell was a strong proponent of ____.


a. eugenics
b. the single-subject design
c. Watson's behaviorism
d. social Darwinism
e. United States involvement in World War I
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

25. Who argued for the sterilization of mental defectives and delinquents and cash incentives for the best and the brightest
to marry and have children?
a. Scott
b. Hall
c. Yerkes
d. Münsterberg
e. Cattell
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

26. Which early psychologist "rescued" the journal Science?


a. Scott
b. Hall
c. Yerkes
d. Münsterberg
e. Cattell
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

27. Unlike Titchener, Cattell believed graduate students should ____.


a. study the contents of consciousness
b. adopt Carr's final form of functionalism
c. study children as well as adults
d. study animals as well as humans
e. study whatever they liked
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)
NOTES: WWW

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28. The original purpose for the founding of The Psychological Corporation was to ____.
a. bolster the public image of psychologists after Cattell's public dalliance with the occult
b. bolster the public image of psychologists after Cattell's termination for disloyalty to the United States in World
War I
c. deliver applied psychological services
d. create a corporation that would publish Cattell's many books and journals
e. take revenge on G. Stanley Hall, who Cattell detested
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

29. The results of Cattell's research on mental tests with students at Columbia University indicated that his measures ____.
a. were valid predictors of college achievement but not of intelligence
b. were valid predictors of intelligence but not of college grades
c. predicted students' grades in psychology courses but not in courses in the natural sciences
d. were unreliable because of personal equations
e. None of the choices are correct.
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

30. The largest "family" of second-generation psychologists was fostered by ____.


a. Titchener
b. James
c. Binet
d. Cattell
e. Watson
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

31. The first effective tests of mental faculties were developed by ____.
a. Hall
b. Cattell
c. Binet
d. Terman
e. Wechsler
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)
NOTES: WWW

32. Binet and Simon's test differed from those of Galton and Cattell in its ____.
a. emphasis on the relationship of higher cognitive processes to intelligence
b. emphasis on the evolution of children's mental abilities
c. emphasis on the recapitulation of childhood abilities in adolescence
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d. emphasis on using sensorimotor tests to assess mental abilities
e. inclusion of Hall's questionnaires as a device for assessing mental abilities
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

33. Binet based his conclusion about appropriate measure of intelligence based on research conducted with ____.
a. French school children
b. Cattell's students
c. G. Stanley Hall
d. his daughters
e. Lewis Terman
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

34. If a 10-year-old can perform the same tasks as the average 15-year-old, then the child's ____ is 15 and ____ is 150.
a. mental age; IQ score
b. IQ score; mental age
c. mental age; developmental quotient.
d. developmental quotient; IQ score
e. developmental quotient; mental age
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

35. Who translated and introduced the Binet intelligence test to American psychologists?
a. Cattell
b. Scott
c. Simon
d. James
e. Goddard
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

36. Who revised the Binet intelligence test into what is known as the Stanford-Binet test?
a. Terman
b. Goddard
c. Cattell
d. Witmer
e. Yerkes
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

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37. The construct called "IQ" was developed by ____.
a. Binet
b. Simon
c. Pearson
d. Cattell
e. Stern
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

38. The fundamental difference between the Binet tests and the army Alpha and Beta tests was that ____.
a. Binet's tests were in French; the army tests were in English
b. the army tests included sensorimotor skills and reaction times
c. Binet's tests were individually administered; the army tests were for groups
d. the army tests could not assess mental ages lower than 17
e. Binet's tests required literate subjects; the army tests did not
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

39. The results of testing by the Yerkes research group ____.


a. precluded retarded men from serving in World War I
b. established the criterion for admission to Officer Candidate School
c. separated the less intelligent into the infantry because they were considered more expendable
d. showed that testing could be used successfully in criterion development
e. had no impact on recruitment and selection or the war effort as a whole
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

40. Woodworth's Personal Data Sheet was designed to ____.


a. separate White from not-White recruits in World War I
b. separate the literate from the illiterate in World War I
c. separate the neurotic from the average recruit
d. assess personality complexes of combat pilots
e. separate the psychotic from the neurotic recruits
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement
NOTES: WWW

41. The effect of World War I on the evolution of psychological testing was to ____.
a. establish a hospitable environment for such endeavors
b. identify the need for "culture fair" tests
c. establish a baseline of racial differences in IQs in the United States
d. refute the assumption that illiterates are mentally retarded
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e. pave the way for aptitude tests for high-school students
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

42. One consequence of the adoption of the Stanford-Binet test in the United States is that ____.
a. public education has revolved around the IQ construct ever since
b. special education courses were established by 1919
c. Terman used it to study genius among cross-sections of ethnic groups
d. gifted programs were established by 1923
e. the campaign to identify learning disabilities was firmly established by 1920
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

43. Unlike ____, who used sensorimotor tests, ____ assessed cognitive functions to measure intelligence.
a. Darwin; Galton and Cattell
b. Cattell; Witmer
c. Galton and Cattell; Binet
d. Binet; Terman
e. Goddard; Binet
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

44. The intelligence test, first developed by ____, is the basis for those still used today.
a. Cattell
b. Edison
c. Witmer
d. Goddard
e. Binet
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement
NOTES: WWW

45. The purpose of adopting metaphors from medical and engineering terminology was to ____.
a. liken psychology to the established sciences
b. reduce the stigma attached to seeking psychological help by adopting the terms "doctor" and "patient”
c. show that psychology was scientific
d. establish psychology as a legitimate profession in medical and industrial settings
e. refocus the public's attention on the experimental and statistical methods of psychology
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

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46. ____ used the Binet test at Ellis Island to restrict the entry of immigrants to the United States.
a. Simon
b. Terman
c. Thorndike
d. Goddard
e. Herrnstein
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

47. According to the intelligence testing of U.S. army recruits, which group scored higher on average?
a. Black Americans
b. White Americans
c. Latin American immigrants
d. Mediterranean immigrants
e. southern European immigrants
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

48. With regard to racial differences in IQs, the work of African American ____ demonstrated the strong effects of
environment.
a. Herrnstein
b. Goddard
c. Terman
d. Bond
e. Murray
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

49. With regard to racial differences in IQs, the work of ____ revealed that southern Whites test as less intelligent than
northern Blacks.
a. Goddard
b. Thorndike
c. Herrnstein
d. Terman
e. Bond
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

50. Who developed the Draw-A-Man Test, a widely used nonverbal intelligence test for children?
a. Bond
b. Thurstone
c. Goodenough

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d. Anastasi
e. Cattell
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement
NOTES: WWW

51. Who extended the age range of the Stanford-Binet downward?


a. James Cattell
b. Psyche Cattell
c. Florence Goodenough
d. Thelma Thurstone
e. Anne Anastasi
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

52. The assessment and treatment of abnormal behavior in children was established in American psychology by ____.
a. Münsterberg
b. Freud
c. Goddard
d. Healey
e. Witmer
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Lightner Witmer (1867-1956)

53. Witmer's "clinical psychology" is today known as ____.


a. the child guidance movement
b. the child study movement
c. educational psychology
d. school psychology
e. genetic psychology
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Lightner Witmer (1867-1956)

54. Cattell agreed to employ Witmer at the University of Pennsylvania if he would ____.
a. study with Freud
b. study with James at Harvard
c. earn his Ph.D. with Hall at Clark
d. earn his Ph.D. at Columbia
e. earn his Ph.D. with Wundt at Leipzig
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Lightner Witmer (1867-1956)
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55. Witmer's methods of assessment and diagnosis ____.
a. were constructed as he needed them
b. were subject to stringent experimental study in laboratories
c. were subject to stringent experimental study in the field
d. were tailored to the individual child and thus were not standardized
e. relied heavily on systems theory for their framework
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Lightner Witmer (1867-1956)

56. To whom did Witmer turn for his diagnostic and treatment approaches?
a. Freud
b. Münsterberg
c. Cattell
d. himself
e. Wundt
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Lightner Witmer (1867-1956)

57. Behavioral and cognitive disorders would be attributed most heavily to ____ by Witmer.
a. genetic factors
b. environmental factors
c. race
d. inbreeding
e. cultural differences
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Lightner Witmer (1867-1956)

58. The team approach to the assessment and treatment of mental disorders was introduced by ____.
a. Healey
b. Münsterberg
c. Witmer
d. Beers
e. Anna Freud
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Lightner Witmer (1867-1956)

59. Who wrote Psychotherapy?


a. Münsterberg
b. Viteles
c. Scott
d. Beers
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e. Healey
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916)
NOTES: WWW

60. The first techniques of psychological therapy to be used in America were developed by ____.
a. Witmer
b. Münsterberg
c. Healey
d. Bleuler
e. Freud
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Lightner Witmer (1867-1956)

61. The two most profound influences on the growth of clinical psychology as a specialty were ____.
a. World War I and World War II
b. World War II and the VA hospital system
c. the works of Binet and Freud
d. Witmer's work and the world wars
e. the influx of German psychologists in the 1930s and the VA hospital system
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Lightner Witmer (1867-1956)

62. The first to apply psychology to personnel selection was ____.


a. Yerkes
b. Münsterberg
c. Scott
d. Witmer
e. Hawthorne
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)

63. The first Ph.D. recipient to apply psychological principles to advertising was ____.
a. Scott
b. Watson
c. Hall
d. Cattell
e. Münsterberg
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)

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64. Who wrote The Theory and Practice of Advertising, the first book on the psychology of advertising?
a. Münsterberg
b. Beers
c. Goodenough
d. Healey
e. Scott
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)

65. Scott argued that the most effective advertisement consisted of ____.
a. a multiple-media approach
b. bright colors (such as McDonald's golden arches)
c. a sudden change in volume (such as television ads)
d. subliminal erotic components
e. a big picture accompanied by the fewest possible words (such as the Nike logo)
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)

66. Scott argued that consumers ____.


a. are more influenced by the mystical than by the practical
b. will purchase whatever assists their adaptation to their habitats
c. will respond to whatever interrupts the stream of consciousness
d. are not rational beings
e. label their emotional responses to a stimulus only after they respond to it
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)

67. Scott's hypothesis that consumers will do what they are told is called the ____.
a. law of suggestibility
b. "tea and sympathy" approach to advertising
c. contraliminal perception principle
d. law of least effort
e. "trial and accidental success" method
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)

68. The technique of telling consumers to "Use Brand X!" is traceable to ____ law of ____.
a. Münsterberg's; suggestibility
b. Scott's; direct pitch
c. Scott's; suggestibility
d. Witmer's; suggestion
e. Scott's; direct action
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ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)

69. Organizational psychology was initiated with ____.


a. Walter Scott’s work
b. the demands of the VA hospital system after World War II
c. the Hawthorne studies
d. the Zeigarnik effect research
e. Lewin's work on social conflict
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)

70. The first person to earn a PhD in industrial/organizational psychology was ____.
a. Walter Scott
b. Lightener Witmer
c. Frank Gilbreth
d. Lillian Gilbreth
e. Anna Berliner
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)
NOTES: WWW

71. Münsterberg was best known ____.


a. through his publications in the popular press on applied psychology
b. through his scholarly publications in applied psychology
c. for his research in psychophysics and his disputes with Wundt
d. for his research on animal learning
e. for his feminist sentiments
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916)

72. Forensic psychology was established with the work of ____.


a. Scott
b. Hall
c. Münsterberg
d. Healey
e. Witmer
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916)

73. Which American psychologist is noteworthy for writing in industrial/organizational psychology, psychotherapy, and
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forensic psychology?
a. Scott
b. Münsterberg
c. Berliner
d. Frank Gilbreth
e. Lillian Gilbreth
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916)

74. The use of physiological responses to assess a person's truthfulness was proposed by ____.
a. Titchener
b. Cattell
c. Scott
d. Münsterberg
e. Lange
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916)

75. Who said, "There is no subconscious?"


a. Scott
b. Münsterberg
c. Berliner
d. Witmer
e. Gilbreth
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916)

76. Whose therapeutic technique might be described as "therapist-centered?"


a. Witmer's
b. Münsterberg's
c. Hall's
d. Freud's
e. Scott's
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916)
NOTES: WWW

77. In 1919 the APA, controlled by academic psychologists, did which of the following?
a. changed membership requirements to increase the number of applied psychologists
b. changed membership requirements to decrease the number of applied psychologists
c. made the APA an "official" scientific organization (distinct from philosophy)
d. created the first wartime commission
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e. officially declared Behaviorism as the "only psychology"
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Applied Psychology in the United States: A National Mania

78. American psychology was influenced more by the works of Wundt and Titchener than by the work of Darwin and
Galton.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Toward a Practical Psychology
NOTES: WWW

79. The first major alternative market for PhDs in psychology was the field of education.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Toward a Practical Psychology

80. Galton's most important influence on Cattell was on reaction time studies.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

81. Unlike Galton's eugenics, Cattell's position on that subject was that data on individual differences should be used to
develop programs to teach people to adapt more successfully to their environments.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)
NOTES: WWW

82. Cattell learned about and gained his interest in statistical analysis from Wundt's analysis techniques.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

83. Anticipating Binet's work on intelligence testing, Cattell replaced Galton's sensorimotor measures of human abilities
with assessments of cognitive abilities.
a. True
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b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

84. Cattell's mental tests, like those of Galton, dealt primarily with sensorimotor measures.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)

85. During his years at Columbia, Münsterberg trained more graduate students in psychology than anyone else in the
United States.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916)

86. The first Binet-Simon test focused on learning, thinking, and memory.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

87. Binet's test was introduced to the United States by Terman.


a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

88. The concept of the IQ was developed by Stern.


a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

89. The army Alpha and army Beta tests were essential in separating the literate recruits from the illiterate in World War I.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement
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90. Attempts by psychologists during World War I to develop group tests of personality characteristics were a dismal and
embarrassing failure.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

91. The testing movement even spread to ways to identify potential baseball players.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

92. The psychologist responsible for using mental tests to assess whether immigrants were mentally defective was
Goddard.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

93. The intelligence test data from World War I recruits indicated that whites scored higher than all other groups.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

94. H. M. Bond was perhaps the most vocal in arguing that White versus non-White differences in IQ scores reflect
nature, not nurture.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

95. It is the prevailing and undisputed opinion that intelligence tests are culturally biased.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Psychological Testing Movement

96. Witmer was the father of clinical psychology and school psychology.

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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Lightner Witmer (1867-1956)

97. Witmer's Ph.D. training with Wundt was a key part of his knowledge base in clinical psychology.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Lightner Witmer (1867-1956)

98. A significant finding by Witmer was that behavior disorders and cognitive deficits are substantially influenced by a
child's environment.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Lightner Witmer (1867-1956)
NOTES: WWW

99. Clinical psychologists' initial psychological methods of therapy were those developed by Freud.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Lightner Witmer (1867-1956)

100. The first person to apply psychology to advertising was Watson.


a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)

101. Scott wrote that the sense organs are the "windows of the soul."
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)

102. Scott developed the "direct commands" approach to advertising.


a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
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POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)

103. The law of suggestibility argues that advertisers must sway consumers' cognitions and not underestimate their
reasoning abilities.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)

104. Scott's approach to personnel selection was to assess the traits of those successful in an occupation, rather than to
define necessary traits ahead of time
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)
NOTES: WWW

105. Scott's approach to the assessment of intelligence was novel in that he examined how people use their cognitive
abilities rather than only how much of a particular ability they have.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)

106. The Hawthorne studies were crucial in exposing the importance of the conditions of the psychological work
environment.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)

107. The first doctoral-level I/O psychologist was Lillian Gilbreth.


a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Walter Dill Scott (1869-1955)

108. Münsterberg stated that women should not serve on juries because they are too irrational.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True

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POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916)

109. Münsterberg made direct suggestions to his patients about how he believed they could be cured.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916)
NOTES: WWW

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