Who developed the Draw-A-Man Test, a widely used nonverbal intelligence test for children? |
Goodenough |
According to Cattell, by 1895 psychology was ____. |
a required subject for an undergraduate degree |
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. |
mental age; IQ score |
Cattell was a strong proponent of ____. |
eugenics |
Woodworth’s Personal Data Sheet was designed to ____. |
separate the neurotic from the average recruit |
Who was hired by Coca Cola to perform research in their 1911 court case? |
Harry wollingworth |
Cattell’s interest in mental tests probably was aroused most by ____. |
his meeting with Galton while at Cambridge university. |
One consequence of the adoption of the Stanford-Binet test in the United States is that ____. |
public education has revealed around the IQ construct ever since. |
Binet and Simon’s test differed from those of Galton and Cattell in its ____. |
emphasis on the relationship of higher cognitive processes to intelligence. |
Who revised the Binet intelligence test into what is known as the Stanford-Binet test? |
Terman |
The fundamental difference between the Binet tests and the army Alpha and Beta tests was that ____. |
Binet’s tests were individually administered; the army tests were for groups/ |
____ used the Binet test at Ellis Island to restrict the entry of immigrants to the United States. |
Goddard |
Cattell’s work was novel in its focus on ____. |
human abilities |
The original purpose for the founding of The Psychological Corporation was to ____. |
deliver applied psychological sevices. |
Clinical psychologists’ initial psychological methods of therapy were those developed by Freud. |
true |
The first doctoral-level I/O psychologist was Lillian Gilbreth. |
True |
Whose therapeutic technique might be described as "therapist-centered?" |
Munsterberg’s |
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. |
True |
The technique of telling consumers to "Use Brand X!" is traceable to ____ law of ____. |
Scott’s suggestibility |
Scott wrote that the sense organs are the "windows of the soul." |
True |
The assessment and treatment of abnormal behavior in children was established in American psychology by ____. |
Witmer |
Witmer’s Ph.D. training with Wundt was a key part of his knowledge base in clinical psychology. |
False |
Forensic psychology was established with the work of ____. |
Munsterberg |
To whom did Witmer turn for his diagnostic and treatment approaches? |
himself |
The law of suggestibility argues that advertisers must sway consumers’ cognitions and not underestimate their reasoning abilities. |
False |
Who wrote The Theory and Practice of Advertising, the first book on the psychology of advertising? |
Scott |
The first techniques of psychological therapy to be used in America were developed by ____. |
Witmer |
Münsterberg made direct suggestions to his patients about how he believed they could be cured. |
true |
1. Why did the FDA take Coca Cola to court in 1911? |
because one of coke’s ingredients was caffeine |
The main reason Wundt’s and Titchener’s systems did not survive in the United States was that they ____. |
were not pragmatic |
In 1900, the American public’s response to the new science of psychology was ____. |
to embrace it |
What persuaded psychologists to apply their expertise to problems in education? |
an increase in public school enrollment |
Cattell’s interest in psychology was provoked by ____. |
his own use of drugs |
Cattell’s Ph.D. was earned with ____. |
Wundt at Leipzig |
Which of the following methods did Cattell develop? |
the order- of merit ranking |
Which of the following techniques became more widely applied in American psychology than in England? |
correlation coefficient and chi-square test |
Who argued for the sterilization of mental defectives and delinquents and cash incentives for the best and the brightest to marry and have children? |
Cattell |
Unlike Titchener, Cattell believed graduate students should ____. |
study whatever they liked. |
The results of Cattell’s research on mental tests with students at Columbia University indicated that his measures ____. |
none of the above |
The first effective tests of mental faculties were developed by ____. |
Binet |
Binet based his conclusion about appropriate measure of intelligence based on research conducted with ____. |
his daughters |
Who translated and introduced the Binet intelligence test to American psychologists? |
Goddard |
The construct called "IQ" was developed by ____. |
Stern |
The results of testing by the Yerkes research group ____. |
had no impact on recruitment and selection or the war efforts as a whole. |
The effect of World War I on the evolution of psychological testing was to ____. |
established a hospitable environment for such endeavors. |
Unlike ____, who used sensorimotor tests, ____ assessed cognitive functions to measure intelligence. |
Galton and cattell; binet. |
The purpose of adopting metaphors from medical and engineering terminology was to ____. |
liken psychology to the established sciences. |
According to the intelligence testing of U.S. army recruits, which group scored higher on average? |
white americans |
With regard to racial differences in IQs, the work of ____ revealed that southern Whites test as less intelligent than northern Blacks. |
bond |
Who extended the age range of the Stanford-Binet downward? |
Cattell |
. Witmer’s "clinical psychology" is today known as ____. |
school psychology |
Witmer’s methods of assessment and diagnosis ____. |
were constructed as he needed them |
Behavioral and cognitive disorders would be attributed most heavily to ____ by Witmer. |
environmental factors |
Who wrote Psychotherapy? |
Munsterberg |
The two most profound influences on the growth of clinical psychology as a specialty were ____. |
World war II and the VA hospital system. |
The first Ph.D. recipient to apply psychological principles to advertising was ____. |
Scott |
Scott argued that the most effective advertisement consisted of ____. |
a multiple – media approach |
Scott’s hypothesis that consumers will do what they are told is called the ____. |
law of suggestibility. |
Organizational psychology was initiated with ____. |
Walter scott’s work |
. Münsterberg was best known ____. |
through his publication in the popular press on applied psychology. |
Which American psychologist is noteworthy for writing in industrial/organizational psychology, psychotherapy, and forensic psychology? |
Munsterberg |
Who said, "There is no subconscious?" |
Munsterberg |
In 1919 the APA, controlled by academic psychologists, did which of the following? |
changed membership requirements to increase the number of applied psychologists. |
The first major alternative market for PhDs in psychology was the field of education. |
True |
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. |
False |
Anticipating Binet’s work on intelligence testing, Cattell replaced Galton’s sensorimotor measures of human abilities with assessments of cognitive abilities. |
False |
During his years at Columbia, Münsterberg trained more graduate students in psychology than anyone else in the United States. |
False |
Binet’s test was introduced to the United States by Terman. |
False |
The army Alpha and army Beta tests were essential in separating the literate recruits from the illiterate in World War I. |
True |
The testing movement even spread to ways to identify potential baseball players. |
true |
The intelligence test data from World War I recruits indicated that whites scored higher than all other groups. |
True |
It is the prevailing and undisputed opinion that intelligence tests are culturally biased. |
False |
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. |
False |
Psyc 319 Chpt 8
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