PBSI 340 EXAM 2 PRACTICE TEST 2026
TESTED QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ How is memory defined in these lectures? Answer: Memory is the
retention of learned information over time.
⩥ What is plasticity as discussed in class? Answer: Plasticity is a change
in the organism that results from development, injury, or experience.
⩥ What is Plato's view of knowledge (nativism)? Answer: Plato argued
that all knowledge is innate and that learning is recollection (the doctrine
of anamnesis).
⩥ What is Aristotle's view of knowledge (early empiricism)? Answer:
Aristotle proposed that all knowledge is acquired through experience.
⩥ What is the "tabula rasa" idea associated with John Locke? Answer:
Locke described the mind as a blank slate and argued that all knowledge
comes from experience via associations.
⩥ What are Aristotle's three Laws of Association plus the Law of
Frequency? Answer: Similarity, contrast, contiguity, and frequency (the
more two events occur together, the more one will recall the other).
, ⩥ What is dualism according to Descartes? Answer: Dualism is the view
that mind (non-physical) and body (physical) are separate substances,
with the body obeying scientific laws.
⩥ What is reflexology in Descartes' framework? Answer: Reflexology is
the idea that some behaviors are automatic reflexes that can be studied
scientifically.
⩥ What does Lloyd Morgan's Canon state? Answer: It states that
behavior should not be explained with higher mental processes if it can
be explained with simpler ones.
⩥ What is scientific materialism (e.g., De La Mettrie)? Answer:
Scientific materialism is the view that the mind can be understood as a
machine governed by physical laws.
⩥ What is functionalism as derived from Darwin? Answer:
Functionalism is the idea that behaviors, including learning, evolve
through natural selection to enhance survival and reproduction.
⩥ What is structuralism (Titchener)? Answer: Structuralism is the
approach that breaks conscious experience into basic sensations using
systematic introspection.
TESTED QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ How is memory defined in these lectures? Answer: Memory is the
retention of learned information over time.
⩥ What is plasticity as discussed in class? Answer: Plasticity is a change
in the organism that results from development, injury, or experience.
⩥ What is Plato's view of knowledge (nativism)? Answer: Plato argued
that all knowledge is innate and that learning is recollection (the doctrine
of anamnesis).
⩥ What is Aristotle's view of knowledge (early empiricism)? Answer:
Aristotle proposed that all knowledge is acquired through experience.
⩥ What is the "tabula rasa" idea associated with John Locke? Answer:
Locke described the mind as a blank slate and argued that all knowledge
comes from experience via associations.
⩥ What are Aristotle's three Laws of Association plus the Law of
Frequency? Answer: Similarity, contrast, contiguity, and frequency (the
more two events occur together, the more one will recall the other).
, ⩥ What is dualism according to Descartes? Answer: Dualism is the view
that mind (non-physical) and body (physical) are separate substances,
with the body obeying scientific laws.
⩥ What is reflexology in Descartes' framework? Answer: Reflexology is
the idea that some behaviors are automatic reflexes that can be studied
scientifically.
⩥ What does Lloyd Morgan's Canon state? Answer: It states that
behavior should not be explained with higher mental processes if it can
be explained with simpler ones.
⩥ What is scientific materialism (e.g., De La Mettrie)? Answer:
Scientific materialism is the view that the mind can be understood as a
machine governed by physical laws.
⩥ What is functionalism as derived from Darwin? Answer:
Functionalism is the idea that behaviors, including learning, evolve
through natural selection to enhance survival and reproduction.
⩥ What is structuralism (Titchener)? Answer: Structuralism is the
approach that breaks conscious experience into basic sensations using
systematic introspection.
