Psych210 questions

Question 1

Epicureans believed that…

Answer 1

All knowledge is gained through sensation

Question 2

The Stoics believed that…

Answer 2

Peace can be obtained through rationality

Question 3

In addition to the 5 senses, Aristotle describes a “common sense”. This is a sense that is…

Answer 3

A process by which experiences are understood by the contributions of each of the different sense organs.

Question 4

Galen was predominately an empiricist. However, he did adopt a more rationalistic approach in his explanation of:

Answer 4

Spiritus Anima

Question 5

According to Aristotle, to fully understand humans, we must examine their:

Answer 5

Biology

Question 6

The highest form of reality, in Plato’s theory, was that ________; whereas the highest form of reality in Aristotle’s theory was that ______.

Answer 6

Which we think with our reason

Which we perceive with our senses

Question 7

Aristotle is said to have known all there was to know in his own day. T/F

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Epictetus called for a philosophy that would be irrelevant to the common experience of the people T/F

Answer 8

False

Question 9

According to Patristic philosophers, the body is viewed as:

Answer 9

Matter and spirit

Question 10

60. Galen kept the_____ system alive and spent most of his time _____.
    a. Gaussian; teaching Aristotle’s four truths.
    c. Hippocratic; curing the sick and understanding the body.
    b. Naturalistic; collecting plants.
    d. Christian moral; preaching to the gentiles.

Answer 10

Hippocratic; curing the sick and understanding the body

Question 11

For Patristic philosophers, human behavior could only be understood by:

Answer 11

Considering persons’ intentions, in addition to their actions.

Question 12

What did skepticism teach?

Answer 12

A detached apathy for life, and that we can only find peace through avoiding conflict

Question 13

The shift from _____ philosophy to _____ philosophy is made by personalizing philosophical questions

Answer 13

abstract; concrete

Question 14

Patristic philosophers understood one’s behavior to be:

Answer 14

The result of intentions or motivations

Question 15

According to Robinson, Chivalry reflects the medieval idea that:

Answer 15

The belief that man as a divine creation serves specific functions

Question 16

Patristic philosophy is characterized as

Answer 16

Importing ideas from diverse sources

Question 17

Augustine defined truth as

Answer 17

Coming to know God

Question 18

According to Scholastic thinkers, we can come to knowledge in which of the following ways?

a. Through a reflective process centering on reason.
c. Our reason can assist us in obtaining some understanding, but our senses are also important.
b. Trusting to our senses alone.
d. Faith only helps us to understand the basics. Reason helps us to understand the profound.

Answer 18

Our reason can help us in obtaining some understanding, but our senses are also important

Question 19

90. Which of the following statements is correct?
    a. The Patristics were largely Aristotelian in their philosophy.
    c. The Church and the kings of the Medieval period practiced animal sacrifice.
    b. The Scholastics were largely Aristotelian in their philosophy.
    d. The Scholastics were largely Platonic in their philosophy.

Answer 19

The Scholastics were largely Aristotelian

Question 20

According to the Scholastics, faith and reason work together in the following way:

a. Reason leads us to faith which leads us to skepticism.
c. Reason and faith are both necessary, but man can come to some understanding on his own.
b. Reason leads us to faith which leads us to understanding, but there are still things we cannot know.
d. Faith only helps us to understand the basics. Reason helps us to understand the profound.

Answer 20

Reason leads us to faith which leads us to understanding, but there are still things we cannot know.

Question 21

_____was said to have Christianized Plato, while______was said to have Christianized Aristotle

Answer 21

Augustine

Aquinas

Question 22

According to the Scholastics, the soul was:

Answer 22

An intellectual principle

Question 23

A basic facet of feudal life and society was

Answer 23

servitude

Question 24

Which form of intellect describes the power of the soul to make thoughts possible?

Answer 24

Potential

Question 25

Hermetecism taught that:

Answer 25

Man was of central importance in the universe and that man had freedom of will

Question 26

Luther’s theology differed from that of the Patristics and Scholastics in that:

Answer 26

He did not believe in free will

Question 27

Renaissance art differed from Medieval art in the sense that it:

Answer 27

Glorified the human form

Question 28

Which of the following does Robinson suggest Christianity adopted from philosophy?

a. Neglect of the soul is a sin
c. The body is the essence of human life.
b. No force on earth can thwart God’s plan.
d. The ultimate reality was at the level of ideas.

Answer 28

The ultimate reality was at the level of ideas.

Question 29

Hermeticism was:

Answer 29

A belief that man is an agent of change.

Question 30

Petrarch espoused:

Answer 30

Skepticsm toward intellectualism.