Mulitiple choice quiz

Take the quiz to test your understanding of the key concepts covered in the chapter. Try testing yourself before you read the chapter to see where your strengths and weaknesses are, then test yourself again once you’ve read the chapter to see how well you’ve understood.

1. If one asserts that mental phenomena cannot be reduced to physical phenomena, without something being lost or left over, one is promoting ___________.

  1. mentalism
  2. phenomenalism
  3. nihilism
  4. nativism

Answer:

a. mentalism

2. Socrates examined various examples of a concept, e.g., a chair—stool, bench, armchair, throne, in order to identify what the chairs all had in common. This search for the general principle behind particular examples was called __________________.

  1. essence
  2. form
  3. inductive definition
  4. substance

Answer:

c. inductive definition

3. According to the classical view of concepts, membership or inclusion in the concept is based upon _______________.

  1. the resemblance of the example with the concept
  2. the degree to which the concept is represented in particulars
  3. the degree of assimilation within a well-established concept
  4. none of the above

Answer:

d. none of the above

4. According to the classical view of concepts, to be considered a member of a concept, each particular instance had to ____________.

  1. be included in the category that the concept represented
  2. correspond in all regards with each every other particular instance
  3. fit within the criteria of exclusion
  4. possess necessary and defining features

Answer:

d. possess necessary and defining features

5. Aristotle introduced the “laws of ________” which referred to how ideas in the mind are so related that upon the recall of one idea another idea that is related to it in some way is called to mind. The one idea, “north” for instance, elicits or brings to mind the related idea of “south.”

  1. association
  2. recall
  3. remembering
  4. connection

Answer:

a. association