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olgavictoria · **on:** Aug 4, 2018

What is the significance for psychology of the 1935 publication of Fisher's The Design of Experiments?

A) It was the last book published in Europe before the takeover by the Nazis.
B) It laid the groundwork for the development of multi-subject, group-comparison experiments and provided the statistical procedures for evaluating data from such designs.
C) It laid the groundwork for the development of the experimental analysis of behavior, which is primarily focused on intensive and systematic study of individual participants.
D) It was the first time that statistical models were presented to psychologists for use in evaluating their experiments.

Question 2

Following the 1935 publication of Fisher's work on experimental design, experimental research in psychology shifted, with one notable exception, to the use of multi-subject procedures. ethods f

Who is the influential psychologist who continued to develop methods for the controlled study of individual participants?

A) E. L. Witmer
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Solomon Asch
D) B. F. Skinner