Philosophy - Ch 3 Vocab Quiz

Two-fold. The view that material substance (physical body) and immaterial substance (mind or soul) are two separate aspects of the self

• Dualism

• Dualistic

• Functionalism

• Rationalist

A modern term used to designate a tradition of philosophy that arose in the third century C.E. and persisted until shortly after the closing of the Platonic Academy in Athens in c.e. 529. It is heavily influenced both by Plato and by the Platonic tradition.

• Behaviorism

• Hylomorphism

• Neoplatonism

• Phenomenology

A term derived from the Greek theos (God) and logos (study of)—the study of God.

• Conscious

• Empiricist

• Rationalist

• Theologian

In philosophy of mind, this is the position that mental phenomena are, in some respects, nonphysical and that as a result the mind and physical body are not identical.

• Dualism

• Dualistic

• Functionalism

• Rationalist

A philosophical theory developed by Aristotle that views “being” as a compound of form and matter.

• Behaviorism

• Hylomorphism

• Neoplatonism

• Phenomenology

The view that reason is the primary source of all knowledge and that only our reasoning abilities can enable us to understand sense experience and reach accurate conclusions.

• Conscious

• Empiricist

• Rationalist

• Unconscious

The view that sense experience is the primary source of all knowledge and that only a careful attention to sense experience can enable us to understand the world and achieve accurate conclusions.

• Behaviorism

• Eliminative

• Empiricist

• Unconscious

The processes in the mind that occur automatically and are not available to introspection, and include thought processes, memory, affect, and motivation. Even though these processes exist well under the surface of conscious awareness, they are theorized to exert an impact on behavior.

• Category Mistake

• Conscious

• Dualism

• Unconscious

In Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality, the mind consists of everything inside of our awareness; the aspect of our mental processing that we can think and talk about in a rational way.

• Conscious

• Dualism

• Dualistic

• Unconscious

This is the school of psychology that advocates focusing on public events––the behaviors of people—while ignoring private events—the thoughts of people. It contends that public behaviors as such can be described scientifically without recourse to either internal psychological events or to hypothetical constructs like thoughts or beliefs.

• Behaviorism

• Empiricist

• Functionalism

• Physicalism