Psych 401 WSU Exam 1 Questions With
Correct Answers
Rene Descartes (1596-1650) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Argued for dualism
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between mind and body | | |
Thoughts are derived (learned) or innate (inborn)
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Mind-Body Interaction |
Mechanistic concept of body | | |
Mental function in brain
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Reflex action (S-R psych)
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John Locke (1632-1704) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Rejected Descartes innate ideas
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We acquire knowledge through experience
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Knowledge is learned or derived from either sensation or reflection
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Association Learning | |
Simple ideas: Primary (objective) and Secondary (subjective) qualities
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Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Empiricist and dualist
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Mind was made up of particles
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Simple and complex ideas
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Rejected Locke - Ideas composed of secondary qualities only
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God was permanent perceiver of all objects
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, Association Learning |
All knowledge learned
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David Hume (1711-1776) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-All we can know is what is in
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our mind | |
Mind/knowledge exists only through sensation and perception | | | | | |
Associationism (learning theory) | |
Laws of Association
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Idea of Causality
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Hume's Skepticism: There may be a real world out there or there may not - we
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have no way of knowing!
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-We cannot know causality
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from experience, but we know it a priori (intuitively)
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A priori = prior to experience
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Reaction to Hume's Skepticism | | | |
Activities of mind are inherent (inborn)
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Experience and reason provide us with knowledge | | | | | |
David Hartley (1705-1759) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Brain function was just
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correlated with mental events (perfect correlation; not causal)
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Associationist (dualist) |
Hartley's Law of Association | | |
Contiguity of sensations - round + yellow = lemon; pull trigger + bang = gun
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Correct Answers
Rene Descartes (1596-1650) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Argued for dualism
| | | | | | | |
between mind and body | | |
Thoughts are derived (learned) or innate (inborn)
| | | | | |
Mind-Body Interaction |
Mechanistic concept of body | | |
Mental function in brain
| | | |
Reflex action (S-R psych)
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John Locke (1632-1704) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Rejected Descartes innate ideas
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We acquire knowledge through experience
| | | | |
Knowledge is learned or derived from either sensation or reflection
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Association Learning | |
Simple ideas: Primary (objective) and Secondary (subjective) qualities
| | | | | | |
Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Empiricist and dualist
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Mind was made up of particles
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Simple and complex ideas
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Rejected Locke - Ideas composed of secondary qualities only
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God was permanent perceiver of all objects
| | | | | |
, Association Learning |
All knowledge learned
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David Hume (1711-1776) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-All we can know is what is in
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our mind | |
Mind/knowledge exists only through sensation and perception | | | | | |
Associationism (learning theory) | |
Laws of Association
| |
Idea of Causality
| |
Hume's Skepticism: There may be a real world out there or there may not - we
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
have no way of knowing!
| | | |
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-We cannot know causality
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from experience, but we know it a priori (intuitively)
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A priori = prior to experience
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Reaction to Hume's Skepticism | | | |
Activities of mind are inherent (inborn)
| | | | | |
Experience and reason provide us with knowledge | | | | | |
David Hartley (1705-1759) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Brain function was just
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correlated with mental events (perfect correlation; not causal)
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Associationist (dualist) |
Hartley's Law of Association | | |
Contiguity of sensations - round + yellow = lemon; pull trigger + bang = gun
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