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Research Methods (9th edition)

Chapter 1 Multiple-Choice Questions
Curiosity, Creativity, and Commitment

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  1. Which of the following statements is true?
    (a) Science and art have little in common.
    (b) Youngsters who are good at science or math cannot be proficient
    in the arts.
    (c) While scientists have great curiosity about nature, artists have
    little or none.
    (d) Science and art have a great deal in common.

  2. Understanding or knowing the world through observation of real events is called
    (a) tenacity.
    (b) rationalism.
    (c) empiricism.
    (d) intuition.

  3. In which method of acquiring knowledge must the major and minor premises
    be true if we are to draw a correct conclusion?
    (a) intuition
    (b) rationalism
    (c) tenacity
    (d) authority

  4. Which of the following was an early empiricist?
    (a) Ptolemy
    (b) Plato
    (c) Estiabanes
    (d) Thales

  5. About when did modern science emerge?
    (a) The twentieth century.
    (b) The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
    (c) The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
    (d) The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

  6. Which of the following is correct?
    (a) By about 1000 B.C., humans had still not developed any
    measurable civilization.
    (b) By 1000 B.C., there had developed a rich legacy of human skills.
    (c) There was no hint of any science until the eighteenth century.
    (d) Technology is a recent development of the twentieth century.

  7. According to your text, what is the "essence" of science?
    (a) The facts.
    (b) The hardware.
    (c) Its way of thinking.
    (d) Its theories.

  8. Who is considered to be the "father of science"?
    (a) Hippocrates
    (b) Anaximander
    (c) Aristotle
    (d) Thales

  9. Hippocrates was
    (a) the first physician.
    (b) the first physician to see the importance of ethics.
    (c) an empiricist.
    (d) an Ionian rationalist in Plato's tradition.

  10. The ancient Greeks
    (a) developed both rationalism and empiricism.
    (b) excelled in rationalistic philosophies but never developed empiricism.
    (c) did not use scientific methods.
    (d) developed scientific models but did not develop cosmologies.

  11. Which of the following is true?
    (a) Medieval Christianity, whatever its abstract notions, was primarily
    an empirical and scientific social movement.
    (b) Medieval Christianity totally rejected all empirical science.
    (c) Medieval Christianity preserved and even enhanced empirical science.
    (d) The suppression of Galileo's discoveries is an example of the medieval Christian's complete suppression of science.

  12. Which of Helmstadter's common methods of acquiring knowledge is
    characterized by acceptance of an idea because it has always been
    accepted?
    (a) tenacity
    (b) intuition
    (c) authority
    (d) rationalism

  13. Strato was
    (a) a rationalist.
    (b) an early Greek physician who rivaled
    Hippocrates.
    (c) an early artisan and maker of the famous
    Stratovarius violins.
    (d) an empiricist.

  14. Thales lived in
    (a) Ionia.
    (b) Athenia.
    (c) Parthenon.
    (d) Galiccia.

  15. Who was the naturalist who anticipated Darwin's discovery?
    (a) Ptolemy
    (b) Thales
    (c) Wallace
    (d) Goodall

  16. The ancient and implicit belief that the physical world is predictable
    is called
    (a) the predictability belief.
    (b) the empirical tradition.
    (c) the orderliness belief.
    (d) the rationalistic tradition.

  17. The basic components necessary for the emergence of science had been
    developed by
    (a) 600 B.C.
    (b) 5000 B.C.
    (c) the sixteenth century.
    (d) the twelfth through the thirteenth centuries.

  18. Active curiosity
    (a) is a major characteristic of scientists.
    (b) is of little use to scientists.
    (c) should be discouraged in children.
    (d) is the only characteristic that differentiates scientists from others.

  19. How do we classify the early (4000 - 5000 B.C.) skills of the
    Mediterranean artisans?
    (a) abstract skills
    (b) religious skills
    (c) rationalistic skills
    (d) empirical skills

  20. Which of the following methods of acquiring knowledge places the most
    demands on the nature of evidence and procedures for study?
    (a) tenacity
    (b) rationalism
    (c) authority
    (d) intuition

  21. The "school" of psychology that emphasized holistic experience was
    (a) functionalism.
    (b) structuralism.
    (c) Gestalt psychology.
    (d) humanistic psychology.

  22. In the early 20th century, a group of people generally barred from higher education were
    (a) Caucasians.
    (b) Protestants.
    (c) Women.
    (d) the wealthy.

  23. Among the most important ideas that students in psychology must learn are
    (a) the names of early psychologists.
    (b) ethical principles, guidelines, and procedures.
    (c) which schools of thought dominated at various points in the history of psychology.
    (d) how to administer personality tests.