Unit 2 Quiz Flashcards
According to Hume, the mind was
a. perceptions that a person was having at any given moment
b. a non-material entity that existed independently of the body
c. that part of a person that organized his or her experiences
d. responsible for human rationality
a
All of the following were goals of the British empiricists and the French sensationalists except
a. to explain the mind as Newton had explained the physical world
b. to show that metaphysical speculation could not be abandoned when attempting to explain human behaviour
c. to minimize or eliminate metaphysical speculation while explaining human psychology
d. to explain mental events in mechanistic terms
b
Hume referred to knowledge that existed by definition, such as mathematical knowledge, as
a. demonstrative knowledge
b. empirical knowledge
c. illusions
d. sophistry
a
According to Helveitus, control ___ and you control the contents of the mind
a. experience
b. animal desires
c. unconscious impulses
d. faculties of the mind
a
According to Hartley, as ideas or stimuli came to elicit behaviours not originally associated with them, ____ behaviours was converted into ____ behaviour
a. voluntary; involuntary
b. involuntary; voluntary
c. freely chosen; determined
d. reflective; compound
b
Hume believed all of the following about casue-and-effect relationships except that
a. they were beliefs
b. they may or may not occur in the future as they did in the past
c. they were learned
d. causation is a logical necessity
d
All of the following were true of Comte’s proposed utopian society except
a. humanity replaced God
b. scientists and philosophers replaced priests
c. it relied heavily on the natural selflessness and moral resolution of women
d. its political philosophy was individual happiness
d
J.S. Mill believed that discrimination against women was
a. justified because women are biologically inferior to men
b. justified because it was in accordance with church dogma
c. basically wrong
d. supported by the “sound psychology” he was creating
c
According to ____, the best government was one that provided the greatest amount of happiness to the greatest number of people
a. empiricism
b. utilitarianism
c. rationalism
d. interactionism
b
Hobbes believed all of the following except
a. humans were innately aggressive, selfish, and greedy
b. democracy was dangerous
c. it was the fear of death that motivated humans to form governments
d. it was human rationality that allowed humans to inhibit their animalistic impulses
d
Kant agreed with Hume that
a. we can never experience the physical world directly
b. humans have no notion of causation
c. all knowledge is derived from sensory experience alone
d. there is nothing in the mind that is not first in the senses
a
About psychology, Kant believed
a. that in order for it to be a science, it must focus on empirical research
b. that in order for it to be a science, it must focus on the categories of thought
c. psychology could not become an experimental science
d. that the mind must be studied scientifically through introspection
c
According to Leibniz, there was nothing in the mind that was not first in the sense except for
a. mathematical knowledge
b. the mind itself
c. what God revealed
d. knowledge of moral principles
b
In a discipline that Kant called ___, he discussed such topics as gender differences, marriage, insanity, and production and control of human behaviour
a. philosophy
b. anthropology
c. monadology
d. direct realism
b
When one cycle of the dialectic process is complete, the last stage of that cycle becomes the ____ of the next cycle
a. thesis
b. antithesis
c. synthesis
d. Absolute
a
