Disney

Derek Bok was recently president of Harvard for 20 years

Accurate

According to Bok, A major "discovery of psychologists... is that people are often surprisingly good judges of what will make them happy"

Inaccurate

According to Bok, Prosperity is the extraordinarily important goal that the US Declaration of Independence and the French Constitution of 1793 have in common

Inaccurate

According to Bok, "Jeremy Bentham gained enduring fame through his pronouncement that the overriding aim of government should be to secure the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people."

Accurate

According to Bok, All in all, therefore, happiness seems to represent a most appropriate goal for a government to pursue, just as Bentham maintained more than two centuries ago

Accurate

According to Bok, GNP is just as - or more- important than GNH

Inaccurate

According to Bok, Schools, colleges, and the government should work harder to increase happiness

Accurate

Daniel Gilbert is a (or "the") leading prof. of psychology at Harvard

Accurate

According to Gilbert, there are more important things than feelings

Inaccurate

According to Gilbert, "feelings don't just matter - they are what mattering means"

Accurate

According to Gilbert, "Moral philosophers tried for centuries to find some other way to define good and bad, none have ever convinced the rest (or me). We cannot say that something is good unless we can say what it is good for, and if we examine all the many objects and experiences that our species calls good and ask what they are good for, the answer is clear: by and large, they are good for making us feel happy."

Accurate

According to Gilbert, ability is to be tested is the characteristic that makes something a potential object of scientific inquiry"

Inaccurate- ability to be measured

According to Gilbert, "it is relatively easy to measure an individual's happiness and feel completely confident in the validity and reliability of that measurement."

Inaccurate

According to Gilbert, "There will never be a happyometer- a perfectly reliable instrument that allows an observer to measure with complete accuracy the characteristics of another person's subjective experience so that the measurement can be taken, recorded, and compared with another"

Accurate

Gilbert's two man points are that happiness is not so important, and that happiness can be accurately measured

Inaccurate

Basically, epistemology is about how you know what you know

Accurate

Everyone in this class (including the prof.) tells you that you have never been to this class because the course was cancelled; thus, there was never a class meeting. The reason you know you had attended this class is due to your senses.

Accurate

According to Gould, one extreme view is that science and religion must battle to the death, with one victorious and the other defeated

Accurate

According to Gould, one extreme view is that science and religion must represent the same quest and can therefore be fully and smoothly integrated into one grand synthesis.

Accurate

Regarding the two previous questions, Gould contends a Golden Mean grants dignity and distinction to each subject

Accurate

In NOMA Defined and Defended, Gould posits that religion is essentially about \______ .

Ought

In NOMA Defined and Defended, Gould posits that science is essentially about \______ .

Is

Concerning the two domains of science and religion NOMA holds, in part, equal worth and necessary status for any complete human life

Accurate

Concerning the two domains of science and religion NOMA holds, in part, that science and religion remain logically distinct and fully separate in styles of inquiry

Accurate

Whether good or bad which phrase seems to carry more weight as a knowledge claim in our current western society:

A. It is a scientific fact

B. It's a religious fact

C. Its a historical fact

D. Its a Disney fact

A. It is a scientific fact

NOMA is "non-overlapping magisterial"

Accurate

How old were both Darwin and Disney when they took traveling leaps into the unknown?

22

For Charles Darwin's funeral in Westminster Abby, the song composed was taken from the Bible's book of Proverbs

Accurate

It is possible, that the above verse helps illustrate that even the Judeo-Christian God states that a benefit for acquiring wisdom and understanding is happiness

Accurate

Due to general public deniers of biological evolution, Disney gave up the idea of human evolution in his film \____?

Fantasia

Progressive juvenilization as an evolutionary phenomenon is not called neoteny.

Inaccurate

"Children, compared with adults, have larger heads and eyes, smaller jaws, a more prominent, bulging cranium, and smaller pudgier legs and feet. Adult heads are altogether more apish." Mickey, however, has traveled this ontogenetic pathway in reverse during his 80+ years among us

Accurate

Gould claims that "babyish features tend to elicit strong feelings of affection in adult humans, whether the biological basis be direct programming or the capacity to learn and fixed upon signals"

Accurate

Gould submits "that Mickey Mouse's evolutionary road down the course of his own growth in reverse reflects the unconscious discovery of the biological principle by Disney and his artists. In fact, emotional reflects the status of most Disney characters rests on the same set of distinctions. To this extent, the magic kingdom trades on a biological illusion - out ability to abstract and our propensity to transfer inappropriately to other animals the fitting responses we make to changing form in the growth of our own bodies."

Accurate

Donald Duck also adopts more juvenile features through time. His elongated beak recedes and his eyes enlarge; he converges on Huey, Dewey, and Louie as surely as Mickey Mouse approaches Morty. But Donald, having inherited the mantle of Mickey's original misbehavior, remains more adult in form with his projecting beak and more sloping forehead."

Accurate

"Mouse villains or sharpies, contrasted with Mickey, are always less adult in appearance, although they often share Mickey's chronological age"

Inaccurate

And as a second, serious biological comment on Mickey's Odyssey in form, Gould notes that his path to eternal youth repeats, in epitome, our own evolutionary story. For humans are neotenic. We have evolved by retaining to adulthood the originally juvenile features of our ancestors. Our australopithecine forbearers, like Mickey in Steamboat Willie, having projecting jaws and low vaulted craniums.

Accurate

It's a scientific fact that Its a Small World attraction facilitates happiness in people

Inaccurate

It's a scientific fact that the LA County Natural History Museum facilitates happiness in people

Inaccurate

As X increases so does happiness. What can you say?

X is correlated with happiness

Correlation

A. is not necessarily causation

B. allows prediction

C. is a relationship

D. all of the above

D. All of the above

The two major factors in Gould's argument are "babyish features" and affection in adult humans

Accurate

With regard to the previous item, how would you design an experiment to show causation?

A. Randomly assign ~2000 people into two groups

B. Have a control and treatment group

C. Create a treatment

D. After the treatment, determine if there is a statistically significant difference between a treatment and control groups

E. All of the above

E. All of the above

In Disneyland, as ice cream sales increase, so do short tempers. Thus

A. Ice cream facilitates short tempers

B. There may be a third factor

C. May be coincidental

D. Heat is the causal factor

E. B & C

E. B & C

The 2008 National Medal of Arts was awarded to the Sherman Bros. for creating music that "has helped bring joy to millions." This is not a scientific statement.

Accurate

How can evolution be simultaneously a "fact" and "theory?"

Theory because evolution is a scientific explanation that is accepted as factual in the scientific community

Biologists' confidence in the fact of evolution rests upon copious data that fall roughly into what great classes?

A. Direct small-scale changes in controlled lab experiments or observed in nature or produced during a few thousand years of human breeding and agriculture

B. Direct large-scale changes, based upon sequences in the fossil record

C. We have the signs of history preserved within every organism, every ecosystem, and every pattern of biogeographic distribution, by those pervasive quirks, oddities, and imperfections that record pathways of historical descent

D. A, B, C

E. A, B

D.

Is direct vision the only, or even the usual, method of inference in science

No

According to Gould, the common goal or science and religion is

A. Knowledge

B. Wisdom

C. Happiness

B. Wisdom

Statements that are not logically accurate can be scientifically accurate

Inaccurate

Dr. Scott would disagree with this statement: Ashley Montagu summarized science when he wrote "the scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof"

Inaccurate

Scientists don't usually talk about proving themselves right, because proof suggests certainty

Accurate

According to Dr. Scott, science is quintessentially an open-ended procedure in which ideas are constantly tested and rejected or modified

Accurate

According to Scott, Dogma- an idea held by belief or faith- is anathema to science

Accurate

Theories are the most important in order of how scientists would rank the following - laws, facts, theories, hypotheses

Accurate

In science, facts are confirmed observations

Accurate

The following is a confirmed fact in science- living things are composed of cells

Accurate

A theory can be scientific even if its phenomena are not directly observable

Accurate

Evolution is scientifically testable

Accurate

Creationism is scientifically testable

Inaccurate

According to Scott, science is an especially good way of knowing about the natural world. It involves testing explanations against the natural world, discarding the ones that don't work, and provisionally accepting the ones that do?

Accurate

According to Scott, theory building is the goal of science

Accurate

What approximate percentage of Americans don't believe in biological evolution.

50%

Intelligent design is not a type of creationism

Inaccurate

The science of life- biology - lies ruined, prostituted, turned into a Creationist citadel by the clergy

Accurate

Darwin was Cambridge University trained

Accurate

Darwin was an ambitious 30 year old gentleman who opened a secret notebook and, with a devil-may-care sweep, suggested that headless hermaphroditic mollusks were the ancestors of mankind

Accurate

Darwin embraced a terrifying materialism. Only moths before he had concluded in his covert notebooks that the human mind, morality, and even belief in God were artifacts of the brain

Accurate

Working though the implications gave Darwin migraine, left him sick in bed, fearing persecution. Wasn't it treachery? Didn't it threaten the last scientific safeguards of the old social order? Weren't these incendiary beliefs perfect weapons for the loutish hordes, already at the gates? He peered into the future. The "whole fabric totters and falls," he prophesied of the unreformed creationist cosmos.

Accurate

Darwin sat on his theory of evolution for 2 years, scarcely mooting his innermost thoughts about monkey-men and apes evolving morality, castigating himself as a Devil's Chaplain

Inaccurate

When Darwin did come out of his closet and bare his soul to a friend, he used a telling expression. He said it was like confessing murder.

Accurate

Anglicans damned it as false, foul, French, atheistic, materialistic, and immoral. It was dangerous knowledge, and tempting. Darwin had known this for years, hence his rumination were confined secret notebooks. He cut himself off, ducked parties and declined engagements

Accurate

Darwin is arguably the best-known scientist in history. More than any modern thinker - even Freud or Marx.

Accurate

Darwin has transformed the way we see ourselves on the planet

Accurate