PSYC 375 HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔According to Philo, the way to true knowledge is by: - ✔✔a purified, passive mind
receiving divine illumination
✔✔For St. Augustine, the primary goal of human existence was to: - ✔✔enter into a
personal, emotional union with God
✔✔Which of the following occurred during the Dark Ages (c. 400-1000)? - ✔✔Arab
philosophy, science, and theology flourished
✔✔Aquinas' great achievement was the: - ✔✔reconciliation of faith and reason
✔✔To remove inconsistencies in church dogma, Abelard used: - ✔✔the dialectic
method
✔✔All of the following were true of Averroes' philosophy except: - ✔✔it was basically
Platonistic
✔✔According to Lombard, all of the following was a way of knowing God except: -
✔✔avoiding sensory experience
✔✔This person preferred naturalistic explanations to supernatural ones and earned the
title "Destroyer of Religion." - ✔✔Epicurus
✔✔All of the following individuals searched for abstract truths that existed beyond the
world of appearance except: - ✔✔Pythagoras
b. Plato
c. William of Occam Correct(p. 92)
d. Aquinas
✔✔Which of the following accepted a completely materialistic philosophy? - ✔✔. 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? - ✔✔a deep
appreciation of Aristotelianism
,✔✔Who was the astronomer who suggested that the earth revolves around the sun
1,700 years before Copernicus? - ✔✔Aristarchus of Samos
✔✔The only justification for accepting Copernicus' heliocentric theory was that it: -
✔✔explained known astrological facts in a simpler, more harmonious, mathematical
order
✔✔Which of the following was a negative aspect of Protestantism? - ✔✔It embraced the
philosophies of Aristotle.
b. It insisted on accepting the existence of God on faith alone; trying to understand God
through reason was foolish.
c. It accepted reason and the observation of nature as ways of knowing God.
Incorrect(p. 103)
d. As a religion, it was very forgiving of its followers' sins.
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The correct answer is: It insisted on accepting the existence of God on faith alone;
trying to understand God through reason was foolish.
✔✔Galileo used experiments to do all of the following except: - ✔✔show that essences
are important for explanations
✔✔According to Bacon, the human tendency to see events as they would like them
constituted the: - ✔✔idol of the tribe
✔✔According to Bacon, the personal biases that result from one's own experiences and
education constituted the: - ✔✔idol of the cave
✔✔According to Renaissance humanists, Aristotle's philosophy had: - ✔✔become too
influential within the church
✔✔Deduction involves: - ✔✔predicting a particular even from a general principle
✔✔Newton believed all of the following except: - ✔✔explanations of natural events must
always be as simple as possible
b. natural events can never be explained by postulating properties inherent to them
Incorrect(p. 113)
c. classification is not explanation
d. because God created the universe, physical events can be understood in terms of
their purpose
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The correct answer is: because God created the universe, physical events can be
understood in terms of their purpose
, ✔✔Descartes explained all animal behavior and much human behavior in terms of ____
principles. - ✔✔. innate Incorrect(p. 120)
b. mechanical
c. religious
d. rational
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The correct answer is: mechanical
✔✔The person who discovered that the retina, not the lens, is the light sensitive part of
the eye and that inoculation might prevent disease was: - ✔✔Averroes
✔✔Philo believed all of the following except: - ✔✔courage in the face of adversity was
the highest virtue
✔✔During the period before the Renaissance, which of the following was not true? -
✔✔scientific inquiry and reason were encouraged
✔✔Confessions, a volume about one man's sins, confessions, and forgiveness was
written by: - ✔✔St. Augustine
✔✔____ sought to reconcile Judaism and Aristotelian philosophy. - ✔✔Maimonides
✔✔The belief that abstract universals (essences) exist and that empirical events are
only manifestations of those universals is called: - ✔✔Realism
✔✔The mystery religions that were influential in the early Roman Empire were
characterized by all of the following except - ✔✔a belief in multiple Gods
✔✔Descartes had an intellectual crisis when: - ✔✔it occurred to him that everything he
had ever learned was useless
✔✔Who were among the first to accept Copernicus's heliocentric theory? -
✔✔mathematicians who embraced Pythagorean-Platonic philosophy
✔✔Petrarch believed all of the following except: - ✔✔Scholasticism contained most of
the solutions to human problems
✔✔According to Bacon, scientific theory: - ✔✔biased observations
✔✔Giovanni Pico argued that: - ✔✔God had granted humans a unique position in the
universe.
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔According to Philo, the way to true knowledge is by: - ✔✔a purified, passive mind
receiving divine illumination
✔✔For St. Augustine, the primary goal of human existence was to: - ✔✔enter into a
personal, emotional union with God
✔✔Which of the following occurred during the Dark Ages (c. 400-1000)? - ✔✔Arab
philosophy, science, and theology flourished
✔✔Aquinas' great achievement was the: - ✔✔reconciliation of faith and reason
✔✔To remove inconsistencies in church dogma, Abelard used: - ✔✔the dialectic
method
✔✔All of the following were true of Averroes' philosophy except: - ✔✔it was basically
Platonistic
✔✔According to Lombard, all of the following was a way of knowing God except: -
✔✔avoiding sensory experience
✔✔This person preferred naturalistic explanations to supernatural ones and earned the
title "Destroyer of Religion." - ✔✔Epicurus
✔✔All of the following individuals searched for abstract truths that existed beyond the
world of appearance except: - ✔✔Pythagoras
b. Plato
c. William of Occam Correct(p. 92)
d. Aquinas
✔✔Which of the following accepted a completely materialistic philosophy? - ✔✔. Zeno
of Citium
b. the Epicureans Incorrect(pp. 69-71)
c. the Stoics
d. all of these choices
Feedback
The correct answer is: all of these choices
✔✔Which of the following did not characterize Renaissance humanism? - ✔✔a deep
appreciation of Aristotelianism
,✔✔Who was the astronomer who suggested that the earth revolves around the sun
1,700 years before Copernicus? - ✔✔Aristarchus of Samos
✔✔The only justification for accepting Copernicus' heliocentric theory was that it: -
✔✔explained known astrological facts in a simpler, more harmonious, mathematical
order
✔✔Which of the following was a negative aspect of Protestantism? - ✔✔It embraced the
philosophies of Aristotle.
b. It insisted on accepting the existence of God on faith alone; trying to understand God
through reason was foolish.
c. It accepted reason and the observation of nature as ways of knowing God.
Incorrect(p. 103)
d. As a religion, it was very forgiving of its followers' sins.
Feedback
The correct answer is: It insisted on accepting the existence of God on faith alone;
trying to understand God through reason was foolish.
✔✔Galileo used experiments to do all of the following except: - ✔✔show that essences
are important for explanations
✔✔According to Bacon, the human tendency to see events as they would like them
constituted the: - ✔✔idol of the tribe
✔✔According to Bacon, the personal biases that result from one's own experiences and
education constituted the: - ✔✔idol of the cave
✔✔According to Renaissance humanists, Aristotle's philosophy had: - ✔✔become too
influential within the church
✔✔Deduction involves: - ✔✔predicting a particular even from a general principle
✔✔Newton believed all of the following except: - ✔✔explanations of natural events must
always be as simple as possible
b. natural events can never be explained by postulating properties inherent to them
Incorrect(p. 113)
c. classification is not explanation
d. because God created the universe, physical events can be understood in terms of
their purpose
Feedback
The correct answer is: because God created the universe, physical events can be
understood in terms of their purpose
, ✔✔Descartes explained all animal behavior and much human behavior in terms of ____
principles. - ✔✔. innate Incorrect(p. 120)
b. mechanical
c. religious
d. rational
Feedback
The correct answer is: mechanical
✔✔The person who discovered that the retina, not the lens, is the light sensitive part of
the eye and that inoculation might prevent disease was: - ✔✔Averroes
✔✔Philo believed all of the following except: - ✔✔courage in the face of adversity was
the highest virtue
✔✔During the period before the Renaissance, which of the following was not true? -
✔✔scientific inquiry and reason were encouraged
✔✔Confessions, a volume about one man's sins, confessions, and forgiveness was
written by: - ✔✔St. Augustine
✔✔____ sought to reconcile Judaism and Aristotelian philosophy. - ✔✔Maimonides
✔✔The belief that abstract universals (essences) exist and that empirical events are
only manifestations of those universals is called: - ✔✔Realism
✔✔The mystery religions that were influential in the early Roman Empire were
characterized by all of the following except - ✔✔a belief in multiple Gods
✔✔Descartes had an intellectual crisis when: - ✔✔it occurred to him that everything he
had ever learned was useless
✔✔Who were among the first to accept Copernicus's heliocentric theory? -
✔✔mathematicians who embraced Pythagorean-Platonic philosophy
✔✔Petrarch believed all of the following except: - ✔✔Scholasticism contained most of
the solutions to human problems
✔✔According to Bacon, scientific theory: - ✔✔biased observations
✔✔Giovanni Pico argued that: - ✔✔God had granted humans a unique position in the
universe.
