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WorksheetsDefining Psychology and its Roots
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which pairing correctly identifies psychology’s dual roots?
Philosophy: social customs; Physiology: cultural practices
Philosophy: emotions and feelings; Physiology: moral theories
Philosophy: biological functions; Physiology: truth and reason
Philosophy: truth and reason; Physiology: biological functions
Which contribution is most closely associated with Hippocrates in Classical Greece?
Defining psychology as purely spiritual study
Uniting medicine with ritual and superstition
Promoting divine punishment as medical cause
Explaining disease by natural physical causes
According to the Four Humors theory, what maintains good health?
Reducing black bile with colder and dryer environment
Balanced levels of blood and other fluids
Eliminating phlegm by drinking cold fluids
Increasing yellow bile to boost energy
Socrates claimed that knowledge ____________.
Knowledge is created by sensory experiences alone
Knowledge is innate but found only through faith
Knowledge depends entirely on bodily perceptions
Knowledge is innate and recovered through logic
In the diagram of Plato’s tripartite soul, what condition supports good mental health?
Balance among Reason, Will, and Desire
Eliminating Desire, acquiring strengthen, and adding pure Reason
Letting Will suppress both Reason and Desire
Dominance of Desire over Reason and Will
Which statement best captures Aristotle’s view of how humans gain knowledge?
Knowledge is constructed by language conventions only
Knowledge descends from divine forms alone
Knowledge emerges from lived sensory experiences
Knowledge is innate and recalled through reason
Mrs. Migliori feels cold and immediately thinks of hot cocoa. Which concept from Aristotle’s psychology does this example illustrate?
Associationism linking ideas by experience
Rationalism through deductive reasoning
Empiricism through raw sensation alone
Idealism focusing on abstract universals
Which claim best represents Descartes’ mind–body dualism?
Mind and body are separate yet can interact
Mind and body are the same physical substance
Mind controls body only, never the reverse
Body creates knowledge; mind is a by-product
Which claim best captures Locke’s empiricism as illustrated by the five-senses diagram?
Knowledge is produced by reason independent of sensation
Ideas arise from innate principles within the mind
All knowledge begins from experience through the senses
Truth is grasped by intuition beyond observation
Which concept is most closely linked to Locke’s view of how humans acquire ideas?
Innate knowledge
Empirical observation
Divine inspiration
Abstract reasoning
