Hgap Final Preparation Quiz

According to the Mayans, after the wooden carvings were destroyed, what were people made from?

• mud
• paper
• monkeys
• corn

Which field of Social Studies would include careers in law, government, and criminal justice?

• History
• Geography
• Behavioral Science
• Political Science

• Galactic

• Burgess

• Hoyt sector

• multiple nuclei

Which of the following is not a way in which we should test a claim, according to Big History and Bob Bain?

• Use our intuition
• Trust the authority of a credible source
• Ask for assistance with verifying the claim.
• Use logic or systematic reasoning

According to Bob Bain, which is not a way that scholars discover ideas, facts, and knowledge?

• They ask a question first.
• They use tools that are available to them.
• They look it up in a textbook.
• They look for evidence.

Which field of social studies involves jobs such as a psychologist, therapist, or social worker

• History
• Political Science
• Behavioral Science
• Economics

Italy

• a

• c

• d

• g

What is pseudoscience?

• Knowing something before it takes place
• The study of the structure of the physical and world.
• The capacity to know everything that there is to know.
• Beliefs wrongly regarded as being based on scientific method

Germany

• B

• C

• E

• F

True or False: It is OK to trust a claim from an authority without doing any further testing.

• True
• False