January

Question 1

Franz Fanon wrote on what topic?

Answer 1

Postcolonial studies

Question 2

Franz Fanon most famous ideas

Answer 2

Slave - master psychology
Violent resistance
Performance of whiteness

Question 3

Frantz Fanon famous books

Answer 3

Black skin white masks 1952

The wretched of the earth 19617

Question 4

Four kinds attachment in attachment theory

Answer 4

Secure
Aversive
Ambivalent
Confused

Question 5

What is secure attachment?

Answer 5

Child looks to parent for safety and reassurance. Parent has provided appropriate support in the past sensitive to child’s mental and emotional state.

Question 6

What is aversive attachment?

Answer 6

Child does not look to parent for support and reassurance. Parent has been cold or aggressive when child has required support in the past.

Question 7

What is ambivalent attachment?

Answer 7

Child will look for support but be unfazed if parent is unavailable. Results from inconsistent support in the past.

Question 8

What is confused attachment?

Answer 8

Caregiver can be abusive leading to confused attachment.

Question 9

Gilles Deleuze main idea

Answer 9

Philosophy not aiming at truth. Creative process to generate new concepts.

Question 10

How do novices learn?

Answer 10

Basic facts and details about subject matter and skill. Isolated building blocks.

Question 11

How do experts learn?

Answer 11

By applying and refining their rich mental models in new instances through deliberate practice.

Question 12

How do intermediate learners learn?

Answer 12

Lots of varied examples to apply knowledge. Cases should introduce deliberate difficulty. Minimal support combined with good feedback.

Question 13

Main objections to act utilitarianism

Answer 13

1 wrong answers to common sense situations
2 undermining trust in society
3 too demanding
4 decision paralysis

Question 14

Main objections to rule utilitarianism

Answer 14

1 rule worship
2 collapse into act utilitarianism
3 wrong answers in certain cases

Question 15

Allicient

Answer 15

Appealing

Question 16

Rwanda taken over by Belgium

Answer 16

1919

Question 17

Book by Bernard Mandeville

Answer 17

The Fable of the Bees

Question 18

Bernard Mandeville’s main idea

Answer 18

Private vice begets public good. The economy is built on vice. Peace and virtue would lead to the collapse of many industries. Without greed we lose investment and entrepreneurship.

Question 19

Director of ex machina with new ai test named after him in which you decide whether you believe the object is conscious/intelligent even when you can see that it is artificial.

Answer 19

Alex Garland

Question 20

Preference utilitarianism

Answer 20

Rather than individual happiness, seek to maximise satisfaction of preferences.
Subsumes hedonic util while accounting for values not captured by pleasure. E g resisting torture.

Question 21

Welfare utilitarianism

Answer 21

Rather than preferences we should act in everyone’s best interests. Preferences may be misguided.

Question 22

When car key won’t turn…

Answer 22

… jiggle steering wheel while trying to turn key.

Question 23

Julian’s dissertation was about this island

Answer 23

Arran

Question 24

Main conclusion of the marshmallow experiments

Answer 24

Self control/ability to delay gratification at a young age is a significant predictor of success later in life.

Question 25

Self control nature or nurture?

Answer 25

Complex interplay of both. Significant genetic element.

Question 26

Ways to improve self control and delay gratification.

Answer 26

Put ‘cool’ system in charge. Reduce emotional content of object of desire. Avoid access to object. Employ strategies to distract oneself.

Question 27

Kant contradiction in conception

Answer 27

Maxim that, when universalised, logically defeats itself. Eg lying and stealing. Lying regularly would lead to a society without any trust and lying relies on trust in testimony to garner advantage. Stealing regularly would lead to a breakdown in private property and ownership thus making it impossible and pointless to steal.

Question 28

Kant contradiction of the will

Answer 28

A Maxim that, when universalised, contradicts one’s own rational will. E.g. not helping others. If universal then others would not help you, thus hindering or preventing you from achieving your own will.

Question 29

SLANT

Answer 29

Sit up
Listen
Ask and answer questions
Nod
Track the speaker

Question 30

Avicenna main ideas

Answer 30

Islamic philosopher who interpreted Aristotle. Diverged by arguing for dualism using the flying argument - imagine removing all bodily sensations, you would still have the sense of self. So the self is distinct from the body.

Question 31

Deluze: art, science, and philosophy are all acts of…

Answer 31

creation

Question 32

Deluze: Philosophy is necessary for sciences because…

Answer 32

it creates the concepts that science uses

Question 33

Deluze transcendence and immanence in the history of philosophy.

Answer 33

History of philosophy is full of transcendent philosophies - those that separate the world into two or more kinds of substance and order them into a hierarchy. e.g. forms and appearances, God and material world, noumena and phenomena.

Spinoza was an influential immanent philosopher who broke down the dichotomy.

Question 34

Snake tempted Eve by…

Answer 34

… saying that knowledge of Good and Evil would not kill her but make her wise like God.

Question 35

Who ended the Rwandan genocide?

Answer 35

The RPF Rwandan Patriotic Front

Question 36

How many dead and displaced in Rwanda?

Answer 36

800,000 dead. 2 million Hutu displaced after RPF victory.

Question 37

In which year did the Rwandan genocide take place?

Answer 37

1994

Question 38

In psychology, what does RS stand for?

Answer 38

Rejection sensitivity

Question 39

What was the “race to the sea” in ww1?

Answer 39

The process of German and Alllied forces attempting to outflank eachother on the french-german border. Eventually ended by Belgium flooding a vast area of land with saltwater which left it sterile.

Question 40

Dunning-Kruger effect

Answer 40

Less competent people systematically overestimate their competence.

Question 41

Leibniz’ analogy for innate ideas…

Answer 41

the veined block of marble

Question 42

According to Walter Michel, the only constant in human psychology that makes up our personalities

Answer 42

If-then conditions. Behaviour is always context dependent even for traits and skills that one would assume consistent such as conscientiousness.

Question 43

The aim of philosophy is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term.

Answer 43

Wilfrid Sellers

Question 44

Auguste Comte main ideas philosophy of science

Answer 44

Stages of knowlege: theological (fictional) metaphysical (abstract) scientific (positive).

Positivism: phenomena will be explain by appeal to facts, the number of which will diminish as science progresses

Question 45

Nelson Goodman main idea philosophy of science.

Answer 45

Fact constructivism. Science does not discover facts but creates them. Also Bruno Latour.

Question 46

William James to be true is…

Answer 46

… to work effectively

Question 47

Massimi on science and truth in aeon

Answer 47

Truth is a normative commitment in science. We should expect science to tell the truth. That’s what it ought to do.