PIONEER OF PSYCHOLOGY - CHAPTER 1 (FOUNDATIONAL
IDEAS FROM ANTIQUITY) TEST BANK Practice Questions
with correct answers and Rationale 2026 Chamberlain
College of Nursing
EXAM TESTS VERIFIED ANSWERS
1) Thales (624-546 BC) - Famous for ✓ Astronomical and meteorological
observations, claimed water as
most important element
- fell in a well while looking at the
sky, first absent-minded
philosopher
2) Psyche - What it means ✓ "Breath", a general life principle
3) Psyche - What is it believe to be ✓ Air: From word meaning "breath",
made of living ppl breath, dead ppl do not
Fire: Heat tied to life; living bodies
are warm, dead bodies aren't
4) Pythagoras (570-495 BC) - ✓ His school discovered
Discovery mathematical ratios in music and
pythagorean theorem
, 5) Pythagoras (570-495 BC) - Ties ✓ Attached religious significance to
with religion math-world correspondences
6) Heraclitus (535-470 BC) - Quote ✓ "you can never step into the same
and belief river twice"
- constant change and unity of
opposites
7) Zeno (490-430 BC) - Paradox of ✓ Infinity; any linear distance
interest and Achilles and tortoise contains infinite point
- Achilles and tortoise: Achilles can
never overtake if race if divided
infinitely
8) Protagoras - Quote and what he ✓ "Man is the measure of all things"
focused on - focused on human experience
rather than cosmic theories
9) Socrates - Bias present ✓ Left no writings, records are from
other philosophers, like his student
Plato
10) Plato - Idealism ✓ View that a more fundamental,
"ideal" reality lies behind sensory
experience
11) Plato - Idealism, composed of ✓ Appearances (phenomena):
Conscious experience of
IDEAS FROM ANTIQUITY) TEST BANK Practice Questions
with correct answers and Rationale 2026 Chamberlain
College of Nursing
EXAM TESTS VERIFIED ANSWERS
1) Thales (624-546 BC) - Famous for ✓ Astronomical and meteorological
observations, claimed water as
most important element
- fell in a well while looking at the
sky, first absent-minded
philosopher
2) Psyche - What it means ✓ "Breath", a general life principle
3) Psyche - What is it believe to be ✓ Air: From word meaning "breath",
made of living ppl breath, dead ppl do not
Fire: Heat tied to life; living bodies
are warm, dead bodies aren't
4) Pythagoras (570-495 BC) - ✓ His school discovered
Discovery mathematical ratios in music and
pythagorean theorem
, 5) Pythagoras (570-495 BC) - Ties ✓ Attached religious significance to
with religion math-world correspondences
6) Heraclitus (535-470 BC) - Quote ✓ "you can never step into the same
and belief river twice"
- constant change and unity of
opposites
7) Zeno (490-430 BC) - Paradox of ✓ Infinity; any linear distance
interest and Achilles and tortoise contains infinite point
- Achilles and tortoise: Achilles can
never overtake if race if divided
infinitely
8) Protagoras - Quote and what he ✓ "Man is the measure of all things"
focused on - focused on human experience
rather than cosmic theories
9) Socrates - Bias present ✓ Left no writings, records are from
other philosophers, like his student
Plato
10) Plato - Idealism ✓ View that a more fundamental,
"ideal" reality lies behind sensory
experience
11) Plato - Idealism, composed of ✓ Appearances (phenomena):
Conscious experience of
