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What is the ontological argument? An argument that God, because he is defined as the most great or perfect, must exist in both mind and body, since a God who exists is greater than a God who does not. Who wrote the ontological argument? Anselm What is the cosmological argument? An argument for the existence of God that claims that all things in nature depend on something else for their existence (i.e., are contingent), and that the whole cosmos must therefore itself depend on a being t...

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What is behaviorism? - correct answer a natural science approach to psychology that focuses on the study of environmental influences on observable behavior What makes a person a behavorist? - correct answer -The perspective that people/behaviors/thought patterns can change -observing observable data due to stimuli in the environment without introspection What are the five major behaviorist theories discu...

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Before Adam Smith - ANS - Aristotle - Scholastics - Mercentilism - Pre-classicist: David Hume - Quesnay & Physiocrats Aristotle (384-322 BC) - ANS Examples of reasoning about economic issues: 1. Exchange can only come if there is a potential surplus from the transaction that parties can share o Money simplifies transaction 2. Principle of diminishing marginal returns BUT, no understanding of the economic system as a whole yet Scholastics - ANS - Priests and teachers at medieval univers...

Chapter 1 – Historical Studies: Some Issues A History of Psychology: Ideas and Context (4th edition) D. Brett King, Wayne Viney, and William Douglas Woody This multimedia product and its contents are protected under copyright law. The following are prohibited by law: • any public performance or display, including transmission of any image over a network; • preparation of any derivative work, including the extraction, in whole or in part, of any images; • any rental, lease, or lendin...

PYC3703 test bank of over 500 questions and answers Chapter 1 TEST BANK 1. Which of the following would not be studied by a Cognitive Psychologist? a. whether people can pay attention to multiple stimuli at once without losing accuracy b. if advertising using animation is more memorable than advertising using no animation c. whether a group of people present affect how much is given to charity d. if the reading speed of college graduates differs from that of hi...

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Philosophy Midterm questions and answers 100% accurate One of the three epistemological questions discussed in the text is a. Is there such a thing as mental telepathy? b.Is scientific knowledge incompatible with religious faith?. c. What is the meaning of life? d. Does our knowledge represent reality as it really is? d. Does our knowledge represent reality as it really is? Who said "Each one of us is a measure of what is and of what is not"? Answer a. Quine b. Protagoras c....

David Hume - ANS-• All knowledge and ideas, however complex can be reduced to some experience our senses have. • His examination of people's mode of thinking led him to conclude that humans think they know a great deal more about the universe than is warranted. • He argued the mistake humans make is to allow imagination to make a connection between cause and effect. • For Hume, Aquinas is wrong in making a connection between cause and effect - these are two separate events rather t...