PSYC 331 LATEST 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔What was the outcome of the commission investigating Gassner? - ✔✔They
believed Mesmer's naturalistic explanation and forbade Gassner from practicing
exorcism.
✔✔What was the controversy surrounding Mesmer and Maximilian Hell? - ✔✔Debate
over who first used animal magnetism.
✔✔What scandal was Mesmer involved in? - ✔✔Claiming to restore a teenage piano
prodigy's sight through magnetism.
✔✔What was the result of Mesmer's claims about the piano prodigy? - ✔✔He was
accused of being a charlatan and left Vienna for Paris.
✔✔What is the significance of the Behavior Analysis Program at WVU? - ✔✔It has
contributed to the ongoing development of behavior analysis and has conferred
approximately 100 Ph.D. degrees.
✔✔What was the primary focus of psychology at WVU by the time David Dale Cole
completed his Ph.D.? - ✔✔Operant conditioning.
✔✔What is the role of the Behavior Analysis Certification Board? - ✔✔To verify
graduate-level course sequences in behavior analysis.
✔✔What type of careers have graduates from the Behavior Analysis program at WVU
pursued? - ✔✔Distinguished careers in both basic and applied behavior analysis, in and
outside of academia.
✔✔Who accused Mesmer of being a charlatan? - ✔✔Physicians in Vienna
✔✔What is a baquet? - ✔✔A tub-like structure used by Mesmer to treat multiple people
with magnets.
✔✔What phenomenon describes the spread of behaviors in a group due to imitation? -
✔✔Social contagion
✔✔What is the contagion effect? - ✔✔When individuals in a group exhibit crisis-like
behaviors after observing others do the same.
✔✔What did the French commission conclude about animal magnetism? - ✔✔It was not
real; people were responding to cues from Mesmer and his colleagues.
, ✔✔Who was the presiding officer of the commission that studied Mesmer's claims? -
✔✔Benjamin Franklin
✔✔What is posthypnotic amnesia? - ✔✔The phenomenon of forgetting events that
occurred during a trance state upon awakening.
✔✔What is posthypnotic suggestion? - ✔✔The completion of a suggested act after
awakening from a trance state, often without the subject's awareness.
✔✔Who developed the concept of artificial somnambulism? - ✔✔Marquis de Puységur
✔✔What did José Custódio de Faria demonstrate about hypnotic phenomena? -
✔✔They are more dependent on the susceptibility of subjects than on the powers of the
hypnotist.
✔✔What term did James Braid coin? - ✔✔Hypnotism
✔✔What was the Nancy School of hypnosis founded by? - ✔✔Ambroise Auguste
Liébeault
✔✔What did Hippolyte Bernheim argue about suggestibility? - ✔✔It is a trait that varies
widely across people and is related to susceptibility to hypnosis.
✔✔Who founded the Salpêtrière School? - ✔✔Jean-Martin Charcot
✔✔What did Charcot believe about hysteria and hypnotic susceptibility? - ✔✔He
believed they were essentially the same, with hypnotic suggestibility being a symptom
of hysteria.
✔✔What is Grande Hystérie? - ✔✔Charcot's concept of a pure form of hysteria.
✔✔What is Grand Hypnotisme? - ✔✔Charcot's concept of a pure form of hypnotism.
✔✔Who was Blanche Wittmann? - ✔✔A hysteric patient of Charcot known as the
'Queen of the Hysterics.'
✔✔What criticism did Bernheim have against Charcot's techniques? - ✔✔He argued
that Charcot's patients were from a clinical population and exhibited behaviors not seen
in a non-clinical population.
✔✔What was the significance of James Esdaile's work? - ✔✔He performed painless
surgeries using mesmeric techniques, demonstrating their potential as anesthetics.
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔What was the outcome of the commission investigating Gassner? - ✔✔They
believed Mesmer's naturalistic explanation and forbade Gassner from practicing
exorcism.
✔✔What was the controversy surrounding Mesmer and Maximilian Hell? - ✔✔Debate
over who first used animal magnetism.
✔✔What scandal was Mesmer involved in? - ✔✔Claiming to restore a teenage piano
prodigy's sight through magnetism.
✔✔What was the result of Mesmer's claims about the piano prodigy? - ✔✔He was
accused of being a charlatan and left Vienna for Paris.
✔✔What is the significance of the Behavior Analysis Program at WVU? - ✔✔It has
contributed to the ongoing development of behavior analysis and has conferred
approximately 100 Ph.D. degrees.
✔✔What was the primary focus of psychology at WVU by the time David Dale Cole
completed his Ph.D.? - ✔✔Operant conditioning.
✔✔What is the role of the Behavior Analysis Certification Board? - ✔✔To verify
graduate-level course sequences in behavior analysis.
✔✔What type of careers have graduates from the Behavior Analysis program at WVU
pursued? - ✔✔Distinguished careers in both basic and applied behavior analysis, in and
outside of academia.
✔✔Who accused Mesmer of being a charlatan? - ✔✔Physicians in Vienna
✔✔What is a baquet? - ✔✔A tub-like structure used by Mesmer to treat multiple people
with magnets.
✔✔What phenomenon describes the spread of behaviors in a group due to imitation? -
✔✔Social contagion
✔✔What is the contagion effect? - ✔✔When individuals in a group exhibit crisis-like
behaviors after observing others do the same.
✔✔What did the French commission conclude about animal magnetism? - ✔✔It was not
real; people were responding to cues from Mesmer and his colleagues.
, ✔✔Who was the presiding officer of the commission that studied Mesmer's claims? -
✔✔Benjamin Franklin
✔✔What is posthypnotic amnesia? - ✔✔The phenomenon of forgetting events that
occurred during a trance state upon awakening.
✔✔What is posthypnotic suggestion? - ✔✔The completion of a suggested act after
awakening from a trance state, often without the subject's awareness.
✔✔Who developed the concept of artificial somnambulism? - ✔✔Marquis de Puységur
✔✔What did José Custódio de Faria demonstrate about hypnotic phenomena? -
✔✔They are more dependent on the susceptibility of subjects than on the powers of the
hypnotist.
✔✔What term did James Braid coin? - ✔✔Hypnotism
✔✔What was the Nancy School of hypnosis founded by? - ✔✔Ambroise Auguste
Liébeault
✔✔What did Hippolyte Bernheim argue about suggestibility? - ✔✔It is a trait that varies
widely across people and is related to susceptibility to hypnosis.
✔✔Who founded the Salpêtrière School? - ✔✔Jean-Martin Charcot
✔✔What did Charcot believe about hysteria and hypnotic susceptibility? - ✔✔He
believed they were essentially the same, with hypnotic suggestibility being a symptom
of hysteria.
✔✔What is Grande Hystérie? - ✔✔Charcot's concept of a pure form of hysteria.
✔✔What is Grand Hypnotisme? - ✔✔Charcot's concept of a pure form of hypnotism.
✔✔Who was Blanche Wittmann? - ✔✔A hysteric patient of Charcot known as the
'Queen of the Hysterics.'
✔✔What criticism did Bernheim have against Charcot's techniques? - ✔✔He argued
that Charcot's patients were from a clinical population and exhibited behaviors not seen
in a non-clinical population.
✔✔What was the significance of James Esdaile's work? - ✔✔He performed painless
surgeries using mesmeric techniques, demonstrating their potential as anesthetics.
