HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY PSYC
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Of the following, who would be most likely to take the position that
humans are responsible for their actions? - answer Non determinist and
soft determinist
The ____ stresses a person's beliefs, emotions, perceptions, values, and
goals as determinants of behavior. - answer Soft Determinist
For Aristotle, sensory experience - answer was necessary but not
sufficient for attaining knowledge
According to Aristotle, we perceive environmental objects because: -
answer 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? - answer
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. - answer inductive definition
The force that transforms matter into a particular form is its ____ cause. -
answer efficient
,____ stresses the emotional or unconscious determinants of human
behavior. - answer Irrationalism
The study of knowledge is called: - answer epistemology
The contention that what we experience mentally accurately reflects the
physical world is called: - answer naive realism
Philosophy began: - answer when logos replaced mythos
The allegory of the cave demonstrates: - answer how difficult it is to
deliver humans from ignorance
Plato believed that the ideal society would be governed by: - answer
philosopher-kings
For Aristotle, sensory experience: - answer is necessary but not sufficient
for attaining knowledge
According to St. Augustine, humans can have conceptions of the past and
future because: - answer of the remnants of sensory experiences
What was a goal of St.Thomas Aquinas? - answer To strengthen the
position of the church through reason
Copernicus argued that: - answer the earth revolves around the sun
(heliocentric theory)
According to the work of Galileo, which set best illustrates the concepts of
primary quality and secondary quality? - answer primary quality: size;
secondary quality: color
,According to Galileo, secondary qualities: - answer cannot be measured
objectively
Galileo was among the first to suggest that: - answer a science of
psychology (conscious experience) was impossible
According to Bacon, science should utilize: - answer only the direct
observation of nature
History has shown that Bacon's inductive approach to science was largely
ignored. However, ____ and his followers adopted Bacon's philosophy of
science. - answer Skinner
Concerning the mind-body relationship, Descartes proposed: - answer
interactionism
Descartes believed that: - answer the mind is nonmaterial
Later in history, Bacon's approach to science was called: - answer
positivism
The religion in which individuals are caught in an eternal struggle between
wisdom and correctness as well as ignorance and evil is called: - answer
Zoroastrianism
According to Philo, the way to true knowledge is by: - answer a purified,
passive mind receiving divine illumination
For St. Augustine, the primary goal of human existence was to: - answer
enter into a personal, emotional union with God
Which of the following occurred during the Dark Ages (c. 400-1000)? -
answer Arab philosophy, science, and theology flourished
, Aquinas' great achievement was the: - answer reconciliation of faith and
reason
To remove inconsistencies in church dogma, Abelard used: - answer the
dialectic method
All of the following were true of Averroes' philosophy except: - answer it
was basically Platonistic
According to Lombard, all of the following was a way of knowing God
except: - answer avoiding sensory experience
This person preferred naturalistic explanations to supernatural ones and
earned the title "Destroyer of Religion." - answer Epicurus
All of the following individuals searched for abstract truths that existed
beyond the world of appearance except: - answer Pythagoras
b. Plato
c. William of Occam Correct(p. 92)
d. Aquinas
Which of the following accepted a completely materialistic philosophy? -
answer . Zeno of Citium
b. the Epicureans Incorrect(pp. 69-71)
c. the Stoics
d. all of these choices
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The correct answer is: all of these choices
Which of the following did not characterize Renaissance humanism? -
answer a deep appreciation of Aristotelianism
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