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Test Bank For A History of Modern Psychology 11th Edition Download
Test Bank For A History of Modern Psychology 11th Edition Download
2. Describe the economic forces that influenced the growth of applied psychology in America.
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
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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.
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4. Describe, compare, and contrast the approaches to mental and intelligence testing taken by Cattell and Binet.
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
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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.
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6. Describe, compare, and contrast the applied psychology of Lightner Witmer and Walter Dill Scott.
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
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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
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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
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
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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
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)
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)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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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
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
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
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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
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
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
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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)
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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
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.
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)
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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)
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)
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)
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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)
108. Münsterberg stated that women should not serve on juries because they are too irrational.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
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)
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