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. The philosophy that has the description of experience as its focus is _____________.

  1. phenomenology
  2. empiricism
  3. hedonism
  4. mentalism

Answer:

a. phenomenology

2. When subjects, in an experiment, provide a report on their mental, subjective experiences, they are engaging in a procedure called __________.

  1. objectification
  2. rationalizing
  3. introspection
  4. ratiocination

Answer:

c. introspection

3. People who advocate __________ propose that the world exists independently of individual people and it           can be known.

  1. realism
  2. empiricism
  3. rationalism
  4. existentialism

Answer:

a. realism

4. My knowledge about the world beyond my senses is limited to the ideas produced in me by those things and not by any direct access to or knowledge of those things as they actually are. Such a position is known as _______.

  1. direct realism
  2. presentationism
  3. objectificationism
  4. representationalism

Answer:

d. representationalism

5. During the 18th century there were three directions that investigative work on the nervous system           followed. Which of the following was not one of them?

  1. the relation between physical stimuli and sensory processes
  2. identifying the function of the spinal cord
  3. freeing the operation of the brain from notions of a soul
  4. differentiating the nerves from the muscles

Answer:

a. the relation between physical stimuli and sensory processes