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Defining Psychology and its Roots

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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1.

Which pairing correctly identifies psychology’s dual roots?

a)

Philosophy: social customs; Physiology: cultural practices

b)

Philosophy: emotions and feelings; Physiology: moral theories

c)

Philosophy: biological functions; Physiology: truth and reason

d)

Philosophy: truth and reason; Physiology: biological functions

2.

Which contribution is most closely associated with Hippocrates in Classical Greece?

a)

Defining psychology as purely spiritual study

b)

Uniting medicine with ritual and superstition

c)

Promoting divine punishment as medical cause

d)

Explaining disease by natural physical causes

3.

According to the Four Humors theory, what maintains good health?

a)

Reducing black bile with colder and dryer environment

b)

Balanced levels of blood and other fluids

c)

Eliminating phlegm by drinking cold fluids

d)

Increasing yellow bile to boost energy

4.

Socrates claimed that knowledge ____________.

a)

Knowledge is created by sensory experiences alone

b)

Knowledge is innate but found only through faith

c)

Knowledge depends entirely on bodily perceptions

d)

Knowledge is innate and recovered through logic

5.

In the diagram of Plato’s tripartite soul, what condition supports good mental health?

a)

Balance among Reason, Will, and Desire

b)

Eliminating Desire, acquiring strengthen, and adding pure Reason

c)

Letting Will suppress both Reason and Desire

d)

Dominance of Desire over Reason and Will

6.

Which statement best captures Aristotle’s view of how humans gain knowledge?

a)

Knowledge is constructed by language conventions only

b)

Knowledge descends from divine forms alone

c)

Knowledge emerges from lived sensory experiences

d)

Knowledge is innate and recalled through reason

7.

Mrs. Migliori feels cold and immediately thinks of hot cocoa. Which concept from Aristotle’s psychology does this example illustrate?

a)

Associationism linking ideas by experience

b)

Rationalism through deductive reasoning

c)

Empiricism through raw sensation alone

d)

Idealism focusing on abstract universals

8.

Which claim best represents Descartes’ mind–body dualism?

a)

Mind and body are separate yet can interact

b)

Mind and body are the same physical substance

c)

Mind controls body only, never the reverse

d)

Body creates knowledge; mind is a by-product

9.

Which claim best captures Locke’s empiricism as illustrated by the five-senses diagram?

a)

Knowledge is produced by reason independent of sensation

b)

Ideas arise from innate principles within the mind

c)

All knowledge begins from experience through the senses

d)

Truth is grasped by intuition beyond observation

10.

Which concept is most closely linked to Locke’s view of how humans acquire ideas?

a)

Innate knowledge

b)

Empirical observation

c)

Divine inspiration

d)

Abstract reasoning