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Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 1hrs 23mins
What is the branch of philosophy associated with knowledge?
Hermeneutics
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Rationalism
What do empiricists think is the best way of obtaining knowledge?
From our minds
From reason
From God
From the world around us
Which Renaissance philosopher was best known for being the first modern rationalist?
Rene Descartes
Wilhelm Leibniz
John Locke
David Hume
Which latin term is used to describe the theory put forward by John Locke that the mind is blank at birth?
Cogito ergo sum
Tabula plena
Tabula rasa
Veni, vidi, vici
Which thinker coined the term "nature vs. nurture" to describe the different explanatory causes of behaviour?
William James
Francis Galton
Sigmund Freud
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The school of psychological thought associated with William James was known as...
Functionalism
Structuralism
Voluntarism
Psychoanalysis
Which one of these emotions is NOT one of Ekman's basic emotions?
Happiness
Sadness
Skepticism
Anger
B.F. Skinner outlined two types of conditioning. What were they?
Type M and Type S
Type C and Type R
Type R and Type O
Type R and Type S
What species did Pavlov first test his classical conditioning experiments upon?
Humans
Rats
Cats
Dogs
Which of these two philosophers were British Associationists?
David Hartley and Rene Descartes
David Hartley and Alexander Bain
Batman and Bane
William James and Alexander Bain
What kind of dualist was Rene Descartes?
Epiphenomenalist
Parallelist
Substance Dualist
Occasionalist
What part of the body did Descartes believe the mind was situated in?
The gut
The cerebral cortex
The heart
The pineal gland
What philosophical approach is George Berkely known for?
Idealism
Parallelism
Occasionalism
Substance Dualism
The type of folk psychology we use to infer, understand, and read other people's behaviour is known as...
Theory of Planned Behaviour
Theory of Needs
Theory of Mind
Theory of Relativity
The behaviourist movement in psychology is an example of...
Metaphysical behaviourism
Methodological behaviourism
Philosophical behaviourism
Ontological behaviourism
The _________ argument against identity theory claims that the same mental states can arise from different brain states
Multiple realizability
Multiple comparisons
Super spartans
Super saiyans
What is the view that we have unconstrained free will known as?
Free Free Will
Liberal Free Will
Libertarian Free Will
Librarian Free Will
Which thought experiment was used to support a hard deterministic philosophy?
Pascal's Wager
Searle's Chinese Room
Molyneux's Question
Laplace's Demon
What is the philosophical position that we do have free will, if we are not coerced, called?
Compatibilism
Ecumenicalism
Impossibilism
Functionalism
Peter Strawson's argument against hard determinism is based on our emotions. What does he argue emotions are in nature?
Proactive
Epiphenomenal
Reactive
Ephemeral
The concept of a determined universe and a mind exercising free will is usually associated with which philosophical position?
Idealism
Physicalism
Dualism
Rationalism
Karl Popper aimed to solve Hume's problem of induction using which
Verification
Falsification
Confirmation
Isolation
Which method of reasoning is Charles Sanders Peirce associated with?
Abduction
Induction
Deduction
Seduction
How did Thomas Kuhn argue that science advances?
Through an accumulation of knowledge
By shifts in scientific paradigms
As a random process
It doesn't
In Imre Lakatos' theory of scientific programmes, what kinds of progress were needed for a programme to be successful?
Social and Revolutionary
Inductive and Deductive
Theoretical and Empirical
Scientific and Public
Presenting exploratory research as confirmatory research is known as...
LARPing
SMIRKing
PARKing
HARKing
In order to demonstrate that not correcting for multiple comparisons affects the interpretability of MRI findings, Bennett and colleagues (2009) scanned a...
Cod
Salmon
Tuna
Haddock
Which of the following Greek thinkers founded the critical tradition of philosophy and natural science?
Plato
Aristotle
Socrates
Thales
Aristotle believed that...
The soul differentiated animate and inanimate things
Both humans and animals possess the same kinds of soul
Plato's ideas about the separability of body and soul were correct
The soul continues to exist after death
St Thomas Aquinas' writings and philosophy are essentially
Platonic
Aristotelean
Pythagorean
Socratic
Associationism is the idea that...
Knowledge is simply associations between ideas
Simple ideas can be constructed from copies of sensory experience
Association is the basic mental process
All of the above
Descartes' philosophy is essentially...
Rationalist
Materialist
Determinist
Associationist
Cartesian Dualism is based on the method of
Hyperbolic doubt
Parabolic doubt
Metaphorical doubt
Allegorical doubt
John Watson rejected structuralist psychology because he believed that...
Structuralism relied too heavily on scientific methods
Functionalism was a better approach
Psychologists should study human behaviour
Psychologists should focus on what is objectively observable
Hume's epistemology is best described as
Dualist
Empiricist
Idealist
Cynical
Chomsky's critique of Skinnerian behaviourism is based on its inability to explain...
Attention
Language use
Perceptual processes
Complex learning
Alexander Bain introduced which theory into associationism, predating Thorndike's Law of Effect
Epicureanism
Cynicism
Hedonism
Stoicism
George Miller founded the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard with which other researcher?
Jerome Bruner
Kenneth Craik
Alan Turing
Noam Chomsky
Sigmund Freud introduced which psychological therapy?
Cognitive therapy
Neurolinguistics
Psychoanalysis
Person centred psychotherapy
Which pair of researchers introduced a mathematical model of the neuron in the 1940's?
Broadbent and Berry
Newell and Simon
McCullough and Pitts
Craik and Lockhart
Epiphenomenalism claims that...
Mental events can cause physical events, but not vice versa
Mental events can cause physical events, and vice versa
Physical events can cause mental events, but not vice versa
Physical events can cause mental events, and vice versa
The Constancy Hypothesis, critiqued in Gestalt psychology, is that...
Each conscious sensory object directly corresponds to a physical stimulus' impact on a sensory organ
No conscious sensory object corresponds to a physical stimulus' impact on a sensory organ
Some conscious sensory objects directly correspond to a physical stimulus' impact on a sensory organ
Some conscious sensory objects do not correspond to a physical stimulus' impact on a sensory organ
