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PSYC-375 History of Psychology Midterm
(Midterm Exam Prep Athabasca University)
Questions With Complete Solutions

Of the following, who would be most likely to take the position
that humans are responsible for their actions?
Non determinist and soft determinist
_________________ emphasizes the works of individuals who
most prominently contributed to a topic such as Plato, Aristotle,
Descartes, Darwin of Freud in
The Great-person approach.
The approach which shows how various individuals or events
contributed to change in an idea or concept throughout the years.
Historical Development
Popper believed that the problem with observations was that
it is selective.
Poppers believed that there was three stages of obervations
view of the problem, theories (proposed solutions), and criticism
Kuhn refers to Normal Science as
Mopping-up operation of paradigm.

,Following a paradigm, scientists explore in depth problems
defined by the paradigm and utilize the techniques suggested by
the paradigm while exploring those problems.
Normal Science
The theory in which all scientific theory must be able to be
proven false in order for it to be considered scientific
Principle of Falsifiability
______________ explains the reason Popper though that
empirical observation was too vague and unrefutability.
Principle of Falsafibility
The potential of theory being incorrect. Popper believes this is a
must to be scientific
Risky Prediction
Popper believes that in order to of a theory to be scientific they
must include
Risky Predictions.
The theory in which you make sense of a theory or explain a
phenomenon after it has occurred
Post-diction
Popper thought that empirical observation gave the notion that

,Scientists just wonder around observing and explaining what
they observe
Popper __________ that scientific activity starts with empirical
observation.
Disagree
Emphasizes the influence s of other factors such as political,
technology, and economic conditions.
Zeitgeist
A combination of __________________ and
_________________ is used to understand history.
Presentism and Historicism
The focus of looking at the past for it's own sake.
Historicism
The focus on looking at psychology today and attempting to
show how it become that way.
Presentism
The ____ stresses a person's beliefs, emotions, perceptions,
values, and goals as determinants of behavior.
Soft Determinist
For Aristotle, sensory experience
was necessary but not sufficient for attaining knowledge

, According to Aristotle, we perceive environmental objects
because:
their movement influences a medium, which in turn stimulates
one or more of the five senses
Protagorus, the best known Sophist, presented the Sophist's
position. Which of the following is not representative of the
position?
what is truth is not affected by the cultterm-5ure in which one
lives
Socrates used the method of ____ to determine what all
examples of a concept such as beauty had in common.
inductive definition
The force that transforms matter into a particular form is its
____ cause.
efficient
____ stresses the emotional or unconscious determinants of
human behavior.
Irrationalism
The study of knowledge is called:
epistemology
The contention that what we experience mentally accurately
reflects the physical world is called:

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