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, 15. Aristotle’s laws of association include all of the following EXCEPT __________.
a) similarity
b) contiguity
c) contrast
d) idealized abstractions *
16. Aristotle’s laws of association include all of the following EXCEPT __________.
a) similarity
b) regularity *
c) contrast
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d) contiguity
17. Who was the seventeenth-century scientist/philosopher who developed a sophisticated theory
of memory but never followed up on it, leaving it to fall into obscurity, further delaying the
onset of a scientific study of memory?
a) Isaac Newton
b) Robert Hooke *
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c) Charles Darwin
d) Benjamin Franklin
18. What influence did Darwin have on theories of memory?
a) the idea that memory develops in a person through a selection process
b) the concept that memory is dependent on a complex brain
c) the idea that memory has developed over the generations to adapt to the demands of
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the environment *
d) none
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19. Memory development in a person is guided by his or her DNA.
a) true
b) false
c) partially true*
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d) true, except for cases of brain damage
20. An important concept that is heavily used in theories of memory that developed out of the
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empiricist tradition is __________.
a) the association *
b) adaptation to changes in the environment
c) the engram
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d) separation of mind and body
21. Empiricists such as Aristotle believed that memory operates as __________.
a) associations between experiences or stimuli *
b) a bridge between perceptions and rational abstractions (since empirical observations
are often distorted)
c) an abstract, perfect realm without need for additional inquiry
d) the rational link between the mind and the body
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, 15. Aristotle’s laws of association include all of the following EXCEPT __________.
a) similarity
b) contiguity
c) contrast
d) idealized abstractions *
16. Aristotle’s laws of association include all of the following EXCEPT __________.
a) similarity
b) regularity *
c) contrast
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d) contiguity
17. Who was the seventeenth-century scientist/philosopher who developed a sophisticated theory
of memory but never followed up on it, leaving it to fall into obscurity, further delaying the
onset of a scientific study of memory?
a) Isaac Newton
b) Robert Hooke *
TO
c) Charles Darwin
d) Benjamin Franklin
18. What influence did Darwin have on theories of memory?
a) the idea that memory develops in a person through a selection process
b) the concept that memory is dependent on a complex brain
c) the idea that memory has developed over the generations to adapt to the demands of
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the environment *
d) none
G
19. Memory development in a person is guided by his or her DNA.
a) true
b) false
c) partially true*
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d) true, except for cases of brain damage
20. An important concept that is heavily used in theories of memory that developed out of the
R
empiricist tradition is __________.
a) the association *
b) adaptation to changes in the environment
c) the engram
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d) separation of mind and body
21. Empiricists such as Aristotle believed that memory operates as __________.
a) associations between experiences or stimuli *
b) a bridge between perceptions and rational abstractions (since empirical observations
are often distorted)
c) an abstract, perfect realm without need for additional inquiry
d) the rational link between the mind and the body
