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 dualist position called ___________ proposes that mind influences body and body, in turn, influences     min

  1.  occasionalism
  2.  interactionism
  3.  double aspectism
  4.  psychophysical parallelism

Answer:

b. interactionism

2. Descartes, responding to the question of the relation between mind and matter, proposed the theory of __________, according to which, although separate, the mind influences the body and the body influences the mind.

  1. interactionism
  2. double aspectism
  3. epiphenomenalism
  4. reductionism

Answer:

a. interactionism

3. Regarding the mind/body problem, Malebranche accepted ______________ which proposes that God intervenes between mind and body and adjusts the one to the other.

  1. interactionism
  2. psychophysical parallelism
  3. occasionalism
  4. epiphenomenalism

Answer:

c. occasionalism

4. ________________ can be viewed as psychophysical parallelism except that it involves God coordinating           mind and body by divine intervention.

  1. occasionalism
  2. psychophysical interventionism
  3. epiphenomenalism
  4. double aspectism

Answer:

a. occasionalism

5. Which of the following is/are true regarding “double aspect theory”?

  1. mind and matter are different aspects of a single reality
  2. depending on the perspective, phenomena appear either as mind or as body
  3. it is a monistic solution to Descartes dualism with God as substance
  4. all of the above

Answer:

d. all of the above