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[02] Lesson 2 Exam - Results
Attempt 1 of 2
Written Dec 2, 2023 1:10 AM - Dec 2, 2023 1:22 AM
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Question 1
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Based on their world view, a Renaissance physician might cure a skull fracture or brain damage by administrating walnuts because:
Question options:
a) walnuts were used by Plato and Aristotle in their day.
b) Galileo had shown that walnuts were nourishing and healthy.
c) walnut shells resemble the skull and the nut the human brain.
d) walnuts contain chemicals that reduce swelling in the brain.
Question 2
5 / 5 points
Like Aristotle, the medieval faculty psychology of Ibn Sina set animals apart from plants by the fact that animals moved. The motive power of animals was known as "appetite" and took the two forms of: Question options:
a) estimation and imagination.
b) avoidance and approach.
c) awake and asleep.
d) memory and retention.
Question 3
5 / 5 points
Which of the following philosophers lived like a "dog," (i.e. outside social conventions) and proclaimed himself to be "a citizen of the world"?
Question options:
a) Diogenes
b) Zeno
c) Socrates
d) Leahy
Question 4
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One aspect of modern psychology that would have deeply puzzled medieval thinkers is our interest in:
Question options:
a) mental processes.
b) mental faculties.
c) the soul.
d) individual differences.
Question 5
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The Islamic physician-philosophers were the first thinkers to propose that:
Question options:
a) the brain is the organ of mental processes.
b) nervous transmission is electrical in nature.
c) different parts of the brain support different mental abilities.
d) the brain is made up of "cells" invisible to the naked eye.
Question 6
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Renaissance humanism turned the focus of human inquiry away from medieval preoccupation with __________ and toward the study of __________.
Question options:
a) spirituality; livestock
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b) God; nature/human nature
c) books; machines, like clocks
d) art; architecture
Question 7
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Who would have most likely believed the following: The soul and the body are completely distinct substances, with the immortal soul using the body during the soul's earthly existence.
Question options:
a) William of Ockham
b) St. Thomas Aquinas
c) St. Bonaventure
d) Aristotle
Question 8
5 / 5 points
Aquinas sharply broke with Neoplatonic faculty psychology when he claimed that:
Question options:
a) the mental faculties were organized in a hierarchy.
b) soul and body form a natural unity.
c) introspection is the best way to know the soul.
d) the soul is entombed in the body.
Question 9
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After Alexander's death a period of turmoil followed. With the fall of the polis to tyrants and foreigners, Greeks of the Hellenistic Age turned to:
Question options:
a) making as much money as possible.
b) the pleasures of private life at home.
c) attempts to overthrow their new rulers.
d) political science and a new, more inclusive, form of democracy.
Question 10
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"Don't commit yourself fully to any belief, keep searching" is a philosophical movement of:
Question options:
a) Cynicism.
b) Stoicism.
c) Skepticism.
d) Epicureanism.
Question 11
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The importance of Roman Neoplatonism lies in its:
Question options:
a) dominance and adaptation during early Christianity.
b) clear expression of Aristotle's thought.
c) rejection of universal truth.
d) denial of the spiritual soul.
Question 12
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An important advance of the Islamic psychological commentators in their commentaries on Aristotle's de Anima
was: Question options:
a) reducing the number of faculties proposed by Aristotle.
b) trying to locate the faculties' different parts of the brain.
c) supporting Aristotle's behavior psychology with introspection.
d) adding a treatment of motivation.
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Question 13
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"Ignore social conventions; be a hippie and live as a 'dog'" is a philosophical movement of:
Question options:
a) Skepticism.
b) Neoplatonism.
c) Stoicism.
d) Cynicism.
Question 14
5 / 5 points
Although the Reformation had no direct impact on psychology, it did have an
important outcome on the history of psychology. Both Protestants and Catholics alike began:
Question options:
a) paying penance for their sins.
b) to apply the scientific method to understand human behavior.
c) to return to the writings of Plato as a way to understand the universe, thus uniting philosophy and theology.
d) to look inside themselves for grace, paving the way for Descartes' introspective philosophical method.
Question 15
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"Know God by dwelling inwardly on your soul" is a philosophical movement of:
Question options:
a) Neoplatonism.
b) Epicureanism.
c) Skepticism.
d) Stoicism.
Question 16
5 / 5 points
Believing that a magnet's power to attract metal objects is the result of an internal power inherent and natural to magnets and not the result of an external spell or demon best illustrates the point of view known as:
Question options:
a) Renaissance naturalism.
b) vegetative soul.
c) Skepticism.
d) Epicureanism.
Question 17
5 / 5 points
"Withdraw from the world and live simply and quietly" is a philosophical movement of:
Question options:
a) Skepticism.
b) Stoicism.
c) Epicureanism.
d) Neoplatonism.
Question 18
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Dante's "Divine Comedy" is an allegorical tale of an imaginary trip through Hell. Dante's Hell is arranged on __________ lines, with sins at different levels.
Question options:
a) magnetic
b) Aristotelian
c) Galilean
d) Post-modern
Question 19
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In the Renaissance world view, the world may be like a(n):
Question options:
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a) book.
b) apple.
c) ladder of leaves.
d) fast flowing stream or river.
Question 20
5 / 5 points
Ockham discarded many of the metaphysical problems of Plato and Aristotle
by rejecting the world of universals. For Ockham, many of these concepts were:
Question options:
a) ideas in the mind of God.
b) fixed essences or Forms.
c) learned habits derived from experience.
d) the teachings of the Church in order to pursue reason alone.
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