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Question 1

What did Eysenck find in his study of therapy effectiveness?

1. Therapy was effective if the therapist had certain skills—the type of therapy did not matter
2. Although neither therapy fared well, Freudian psychoanalysis was found to be more effective than eclectic therapy
3. Improvement was actually better without therapy than with either Freudian or eclectic therapy
4. The only therapy found to be better than the absence of therapy was “eclectic” therapy

Question 2

Which of the following is true about Neisser’s book Cognitive Psychology?

1. It emphasized research that had ecological validity
2. Because it was published when behaviorism was strong, it required an entire chapter to defend its existence
3. The title of the book gave the movement (toward increased study of cognitive variables) a name
4. Its central concept was the TOTE unit

Question 3

In his employee selection work, Münsterberg:

1. Used a simulation procedure in his work for the New England Telephone Company
2. Identified a number of specific tasks related to performance in his work with “motormen”
3. Both used a simulation procedure in his work for the New England Telephone Company and identified a number of specific tasks related to performance in his work with “motormen”
4. None of these

Question 4

Which of the following is inappropriately paired?

1. Gilbreth—ergonomics
2. Bingham—forensic psychology
3. Münsterberg—simulations for employee selection
4. Hollingworth—caffeine research

Question 5

Concerning the phi phenomenon, with which of the following statements would Wertheimer agree?

1. The phenomenon cannot be analyzed into constituent elements
2. Understanding it requires using the Helmholtz concept of an unconscious inference
3. When observing the phenomenon, our eyes move, and it is these eye movements that provide the key to understanding the phenomenon
4. It is an illusory phenomenon; we don’t really perceive motion, we just think we do