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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.
Understanding or knowing the world
through observation of real events is called
(a) tenacity.
(b) rationalism.
(c) empiricism.
(d) intuition.
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
Which of the following was an early
empiricist?
(a) Ptolemy
(b) Plato
(c) Estiabanes
(d) Thales
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.
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.
According to your text, what is the
"essence" of science?
(a) The facts.
(b) The hardware.
(c) Its way of thinking.
(d) Its theories.
Who is considered to be the "father
of science"?
(a) Hippocrates
(b) Anaximander
(c) Aristotle
(d) Thales
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Thales lived in
(a) Ionia.
(b) Athenia.
(c) Parthenon.
(d) Galiccia.
Who was the naturalist who
anticipated Darwin's discovery?
(a) Ptolemy
(b) Thales
(c) Wallace
(d) Goodall
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.
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.
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.
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
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
The "school" of psychology that
emphasized holistic experience was
(a) functionalism.
(b) structuralism.
(c) Gestalt psychology.
(d) humanistic psychology.
In the early 20th
century, a group of people generally barred from higher
education were
(a) Caucasians.
(b) Protestants.
(c) Women.
(d) the wealthy.
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.