PSYC 375 Midterm Practice Questions and Answers 2024 Graded A

The approach to writing a history of psychology that combines the best of several approaches is referred to as - Electicism Persistent observations that a currently accepted paradigm cannot explain is called - An anomaly Popper disagrees with the traditional view that scientific activity starts with - Empirical observation Explaining phenomena after they have already occurred is called - Post diction According to the author of your text, contemporary psychology is - A multiparadigmatic science The position that states that mental and physiological reactions are two aspects the same experience and cannot be separated is called - Double aspectism The contention that what we experience mentally accurately reflects the physical world is called - Naive realism A currently popular way of explaining mind-body relationships that claims mental states emerge from brain activity is called - Emergentism Which of the following is not part of the traditional view of science? - Assumption of dualism Which of the following represents a dualistic position on the mind-body question? - Epiphenomenalism Plato believed that the ideal society would be governed by - Philosopher kings According to Aristotle, the unmoved mover - Set nature in motion and did little else Aquinas's great achievement was the - Reconciliation of faith and reason Aristotle's philosophy was highly influential in ____ during the so-called Dark Ages. - the Arab world According to Aristotle, the ______ kept an object moving or developing in its prescribed direction until its full potential was reached - Entelechy According to Aristotle, the ultimate goal of humans was to - Engage in active reasoning According to Aristotle, ______ possess a soul - All living things The particular form or pattern of an object is its _____ cause - Formal To remove inconsistencies in church dogma, Abelard used - The dialectic method For Aristotle, sensory experience - Was necessary but not sufficient for attaining knowledge Newton believed all of the following except - Because God created the universe, physical events can be understood in terms of their purpose History has shown that Bacon's inductive approach to science was largely ignored. However, _____ and his followers adopted Bacon's philosophy of science. - Skinner Galileo was among the first to conclude that - A science of psychology (conscious experience) was impossible All of the following were reasons that Kepler accepted Copernicus's heliocentric theory except - Kepler believed that Copernicus's theory gave humans a favoured place in the universe Descartes followed all of the following rules while seeking certainty except - Always proceed from the general to the specific According to Galileo, all of the following were true of secondary qualities except - They are the only qualities of which we can be certain Deduction involves - Predicting a particular event from a general principle Which of the following was not a factor in the acceptance of objective study of nature due to the weakening of church authority? - The embracing of Aristotle's empirical views Newton believed all of the following about the universe except that - It was too complex to be understood by anyone but God According to Renaissance humanists, Aristotle's philosophy had - Become too influential within the church J.S. Mill believed that discrimination against women was - Basically wrong _____ was the belief that the only valid knowledge was scientific knowledge, and that science could solve all human problems - Scientism