PSYC 403 - SEPT 22, 24 (KANT & GESTALT
PSYCHOLOGISTS) TEST BANK Practice Questions
with correct answers and Rationale 2026
Chamberlain College of Nursing
EXAM QUESTIONS GRADED A+ ANSWERS
1) Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) - ✓ Leibnizian tradition, a rationalist
Trained in what tradition
2) Kant - Secularism aspect ✓ Not non-religious himself, he
was Christian, but his work
pushed towards secular
justifications for things
explained by
religion/metaphysics
3) Ethic Digression - Historically, ✓ Because of fear of God/hell
why do ppl behave ethically
4) Ethic Digression - What did ✓ Asked if there was a way to
Kant aim at justify ethical behaviour without
relying on fear of metaphysical
agent
, 5) Secular explanation of Ethics - ✓ Only acting on rules that could
Categorical imperative and become universal laws for
Buddhist link everyone
- Sacrificing fun/evil leads to
sense of duty and self-respect,
doing good feels good
6) Categorical imperative - Similar ✓ Locke's social contract,
to Christian Golden rule
7) Kant secularism - What about ✓ Same thing, searches for
soul/mind secular explanation of mind
8) David Hume (Locke's follower) ✓ No causality, only associations
- Argument on causality and we can't prove something
metaphysical, all we know is
sequence of events that we
expect reproduce
- eg. we only expect ball to
move when hit by another, bc it
has done so many times
9) Kant reaction to Hume's ✓ Disturbed, since he was a
causality argument rationalist, but agreed and said
back that if causality can't be
proven in external world, but
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PSYCHOLOGISTS) TEST BANK Practice Questions
with correct answers and Rationale 2026
Chamberlain College of Nursing
EXAM QUESTIONS GRADED A+ ANSWERS
1) Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) - ✓ Leibnizian tradition, a rationalist
Trained in what tradition
2) Kant - Secularism aspect ✓ Not non-religious himself, he
was Christian, but his work
pushed towards secular
justifications for things
explained by
religion/metaphysics
3) Ethic Digression - Historically, ✓ Because of fear of God/hell
why do ppl behave ethically
4) Ethic Digression - What did ✓ Asked if there was a way to
Kant aim at justify ethical behaviour without
relying on fear of metaphysical
agent
, 5) Secular explanation of Ethics - ✓ Only acting on rules that could
Categorical imperative and become universal laws for
Buddhist link everyone
- Sacrificing fun/evil leads to
sense of duty and self-respect,
doing good feels good
6) Categorical imperative - Similar ✓ Locke's social contract,
to Christian Golden rule
7) Kant secularism - What about ✓ Same thing, searches for
soul/mind secular explanation of mind
8) David Hume (Locke's follower) ✓ No causality, only associations
- Argument on causality and we can't prove something
metaphysical, all we know is
sequence of events that we
expect reproduce
- eg. we only expect ball to
move when hit by another, bc it
has done so many times
9) Kant reaction to Hume's ✓ Disturbed, since he was a
causality argument rationalist, but agreed and said
back that if causality can't be
proven in external world, but
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