CPCE EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
In 1908, books by _______ helped to introduce social psychology in America. --
Answer ✔✔ McDougall and Ross
(William McDougall & Edward Alsworth Ross)
Who pioneered psychodrama and coined the term "group therapy?" -- Answer ✔✔
Jacob Moreno
Who is Irvin Yalom? -- Answer ✔✔ an existentialist known for his strides in group
work, existential therapy, and death/dying
Who stressed that a person's occupational environment should be congruent with his
or her personality type? -- Answer ✔✔ John Holland
Who postulated that jobs can compensate for unmet childhood needs? -- Answer ✔✔
Anne Roe
Who espoused a cognitive theory of hypnotism? -- Answer ✔✔ T. X. Barber
Who is Andrew Salter? -- Answer ✔✔ a pioneer in the behavior therapy, creating a
paradigm dubbed conditioned reflex therapy and a behavioristic theory of hypnosis &
autohypnosis
, Who is associated with obedience and authority? -- Answer ✔✔ Stanley Milgram
(psychologist)
-individuals were told to give others powerful electric shocks and did so on command
-told to punish a learner strapped to an electric chair when he/she gave an incorrect
answer
-40 experimental subjects; 14 refused to go to the highest level of shock
-often used to explain obedience and authority in social situations such as Salem witch
hunts and Nazi war crimes
Who postulated the tendency to affiliate with others is highest in firstborns and only
children, and decreases for later-born children? -- Answer ✔✔ Stanley Schachter
Who conducted the classic experiment at a boy's summer camp near Robber's Cave,
OK, wherein two teams of boys were given a goal to attain only by working in a joint
manner? -- Answer ✔✔ Muzafer Sherif et al. (Robbers Cave Experiment)
Who found that, in a group setting, approximately 35% of people in a perceptual activity
gave an answer which was clearly incorrect in order to conform? -- Answer ✔✔
Solomon Asch and Muzafer Sherif (Asch Situation)
________ and _______ who originally worked with Freud, created individual
psychology and analytic psychology respectively. -- Answer ✔✔ Alfred Adler and Carl
Jung
Who developed a paradigm known as "systemic desensitization" which is useful when
trying to weaken (desensitize) a client's response to an anxiety-producing stimuli? --
Answer ✔✔ Joseph Wolpe
What is the case of Little Albert? -- Answer ✔✔ Associated with John Broadus Watson
-conditioned a 9-month-old boy named Albert to be afraid of furry objects
-first exposed to a white rat
-strike a steel bar every time the child would get near the animal
-demonstrated that fears are *learned* rather than the analytic concept that they are
somehow a result of an unconscious process
ANSWERS
In 1908, books by _______ helped to introduce social psychology in America. --
Answer ✔✔ McDougall and Ross
(William McDougall & Edward Alsworth Ross)
Who pioneered psychodrama and coined the term "group therapy?" -- Answer ✔✔
Jacob Moreno
Who is Irvin Yalom? -- Answer ✔✔ an existentialist known for his strides in group
work, existential therapy, and death/dying
Who stressed that a person's occupational environment should be congruent with his
or her personality type? -- Answer ✔✔ John Holland
Who postulated that jobs can compensate for unmet childhood needs? -- Answer ✔✔
Anne Roe
Who espoused a cognitive theory of hypnotism? -- Answer ✔✔ T. X. Barber
Who is Andrew Salter? -- Answer ✔✔ a pioneer in the behavior therapy, creating a
paradigm dubbed conditioned reflex therapy and a behavioristic theory of hypnosis &
autohypnosis
, Who is associated with obedience and authority? -- Answer ✔✔ Stanley Milgram
(psychologist)
-individuals were told to give others powerful electric shocks and did so on command
-told to punish a learner strapped to an electric chair when he/she gave an incorrect
answer
-40 experimental subjects; 14 refused to go to the highest level of shock
-often used to explain obedience and authority in social situations such as Salem witch
hunts and Nazi war crimes
Who postulated the tendency to affiliate with others is highest in firstborns and only
children, and decreases for later-born children? -- Answer ✔✔ Stanley Schachter
Who conducted the classic experiment at a boy's summer camp near Robber's Cave,
OK, wherein two teams of boys were given a goal to attain only by working in a joint
manner? -- Answer ✔✔ Muzafer Sherif et al. (Robbers Cave Experiment)
Who found that, in a group setting, approximately 35% of people in a perceptual activity
gave an answer which was clearly incorrect in order to conform? -- Answer ✔✔
Solomon Asch and Muzafer Sherif (Asch Situation)
________ and _______ who originally worked with Freud, created individual
psychology and analytic psychology respectively. -- Answer ✔✔ Alfred Adler and Carl
Jung
Who developed a paradigm known as "systemic desensitization" which is useful when
trying to weaken (desensitize) a client's response to an anxiety-producing stimuli? --
Answer ✔✔ Joseph Wolpe
What is the case of Little Albert? -- Answer ✔✔ Associated with John Broadus Watson
-conditioned a 9-month-old boy named Albert to be afraid of furry objects
-first exposed to a white rat
-strike a steel bar every time the child would get near the animal
-demonstrated that fears are *learned* rather than the analytic concept that they are
somehow a result of an unconscious process
