Test 2 - Final

Test 2


Berkley - to be perceived is to be

Condillac - humans are machines

Gall - the bumps on your head explain why you got the answer right

Hegel - Marx used by ideas in his concept of dialectic materialism

Hering - Oppositions of the receptor cells (red-green) explain color perception

James Mill - I used the law of association to teach my son

Locke - We were once all blank slates

Kant - David Hume awoke me from my slumbers

Nietzche - Opinions are better than convictions

Rousseau - People were born free, but everywhere they are in chains

  1. What was true of the British empiricists?

    1. They attempted to explain the functioning of the mind according to Newton’s principles

  2. For Locke, all ideas come from

    1. Sensation and reflection

  3. How did Hobbes feel about democracy?

    1. He thought it was dangerous

  4. According to Berkley, external reality exists bc

    1. God perceives it

  5. According to John Stuart Mill, ______ create variations in observable phenomena that cause predictions to be probabilistic rather than certain

    1. Secondary laws

  6. What philosophical position postulates an active mind that transforms sensory info and is capable of understanding abstract principles or concepts not attainable from sensory info alone?

    1. Positivism

  7. According to Reid, we could trust our notions about the physical world bc

    1. It made common sense to do so

  8. What was Kant’s categorical imperative?

    1. The principle that should govern moral behavior

  9. According to Hegel, when one cycle of the dialectic process is complete, the last stage of that cycle becomes the ______ of the next cycle

    1. Thesis

  10. According to herbart, an idea is allowed to enter consciousness if it is

    1. Compatible with the apperceptive mass

  11. The romantic philosophers considered which human characteristic as most important

    1. Irrational feelings

  12. According to Rousseau, which of the following provides the optimal condition for learning?

    1. A child’s natural interests

  13. Goethe’s idea to embrace the opposing forces present in life had a direct influence on 

    1. Jung

  14. Which of the following is the correct arrangement of the stages Kierkegaard suggested for the development of human freedom?

    1. Aesthetic, ethical, religious

  15. For Nietzche, people approaching their full potential are

    1. Supermen

  16. What is Muller’s proposition that there are 5 types of sensory nerves, each containing a characteristic energy?

    1. The doctrine of specific nerve energies

  17. Helmholtz changed slightly the color vision theory of ____

    1. Young

  18. Although Ladd-Franklin completed all the requirements for her PhD in 1882, she wasn’t given a degree until 1926 bec she was a 

    1. Woman

  19. The part of the cortex associated w speech comprehension is known as 

    1. Wernicke’s area

  20. Fechner called the lowest intensity at which a stimulus can be detected the 

    1. Absolute threshold