Deck 6: The Enlightenment 1700-1815

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Which of the following was NOT one of the perceived enemies of the Enlightenment Project?

A) religion
B) science
C) tradition
D) the aristocracy
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سؤال
Which of the following was considered to be the "The lamp of the Enlightenment"?

A) Hume
B) Newton
C) c. Locke
D) d. Kant
سؤال
The 17th century figure who had the most influence on Enlightenment philosophy was:

A) Descartes
B) Galileo
C) Newton
D) Hobbes
سؤال
Locke argued for two fountains of knowledge or kinds of experience. The two types were _________ and _________.

A) positive, negative
B) passionate, cerebral (i.e. thinking)
C) personal, community
D) sensation, reflection
سؤال
If you thought of certain thinkers as bookends on different shelves of a library, then ______ would be the bookend that closes out the premodern era and ________ would be the bookend sitting at the beginning of the modern thought section.

A) Locke, Descartes
B) Descartes, Locke
C) Locke, Galileo
D) Reid, Leahey
سؤال
When it came to answering the thorny question, "Do we have free will"? Locke answered:

A) Yes, one can always choose a course of action even if it is painful.
B) No, one's choice is determined by innate moral rules.
C) By reframing the issue, he argued what matters is freedom of action, not will.
D) That it was an irrelevant question, and could never be answered.
سؤال
Berkeley's theory of depth perception supported his metaphysical argument that

A) belief in an external world is more an act of faith than real Knowledge
B) children should able to perceive depth immediately from birth
C) we perceive the world realistically-as it is, without mental inferences
D) Kant's metaphysics was profoundly incorrect, even irrational
سؤال
Although the concept of association of ideas is very old, only _________ made it into a central principle of mental operation, calling it the "gravity" of the mind.

A) Locke
B) Berkeley
C) Hume
D) Kant
سؤال
Which of the following thinkers was most responsible for the skeptical crisis of the 18th century?

A) Locke
B) Berkeley
C) Hume
D) Kant
سؤال
Hume argued that our ability to form generalizations, i.e., form true beliefs,

A) is a God-given mental faculty and is therefore a reliable source of knowledge
B) results from the Transcendental Ego's imposition of the Categories of Apperception on raw sensory experience
C) depends on careful use of demonstrative logic to prove our conclusions
D) is useful in the conduct of life and is found in children and animals, but does not guarantee Truth
سؤال
Which of the following was the view of Reid and the Scots?

A) is a God-given mental faculty and is therefore a reliable source of knowledge
B) results from the Transcendental Ego's imposition of the Categories of Apperception on raw sensory experience
C) depends on careful use of demonstrative logic to prove our conclusions
D) is useful in the conduct of life and is found in children and animals, but does not guarantee Truth
سؤال
Which of the following was the view of Immanuel Kant?

A) is a God-given mental faculty and is therefore a reliable source of knowledge
B) results from the Transcendental Ego's imposition of the Categories of Apperception on raw sensory experience
C) depends on careful use of demonstrative logic to prove our conclusions
D) is useful in the conduct of life and is found in children and animals, but does not guarantee Truth
سؤال
Research on Pavlovian conditioning has found that acquisition of a conditional response is fastest when the CS precedes the US by ½ second. This finding illustrates which of Hume's laws of association?

A) resemblance
B) contiguity
C) causality
D) frequency
سؤال
Kant referred to things in themselves-the world outside human perception as:

A) phenomena
B) noumena
C) ideas
D) stimuli
سؤال
With respect to the possibility of psychology-defined as the introspective psychology of consciousness-becoming a science, Kant argued that:

A) psychology cannot, in principle, become a real science
B) it could become an imperfect science, like meteorology
C) it can become a science if it applies the approach of Newton
D) Hume had already created a true psychological science
سؤال
Taking the next logical step past Cartesian dualism, which said that the soul's only function is thinking, La Mettrie proposed that:

A) animals have souls similar to human souls
B) humans are just soulless machines, as are animals
C) animals are incapable of learning language
D) the human soul is unique in possessing memory and imagination
سؤال
Taking over the concepts of British empiricism, Condillac and the Ideologues:

A) formed a rock band (Grammy winning CD: The Way of Ideas)
B) argued that empiricism was a dead end, and supported Kantian idealism
C) proposed that the mind was completely empty at birth, shaped exclusively by experience
D) concluded that reason was a poor guide to life, and turned to intense emotion instead
سؤال
Some Enlightenment thinkers, especially in France, were excited by the ideas of La Mettrie and Condillac because they implied that:

A) human nature was inherently good and unchangeable
B) religious belief, though not true, was socially useful
C) in a state of nature, the life of man is solitary, nasty, brutish, and short
D) people could be easily shaped into any from society might desire
سؤال
The idea that people have an innate moral sense that intuitively distinguishes right from wrong:

A) was proposed by the Scottish common-sense philosophers
B) led to the idea that psychology could be a distinct, moral, science
C) especially influential in the United States
D) all of the above
سؤال
With respect to the possibility of psychology-defined as the introspective psychology of consciousness-becoming a science, Vico argued that:

A) psychology cannot, in principle, become a real science
B) it could become an imperfect science, like meteorology
C) it could become a science by applying the methods of Newton
D) because people create local cultures, the human sciences should not be modeled on the natural sciences such as physics, but on history
سؤال
From reading about the inhabitants of the Pacific islands, ______ concluded that in a state of nature people are "noble savages."

A) Rousseau
B) Herder
C) Condorcet
D) Berkeley
سؤال
From the course of the French Revolution, many thinkers concluded that:

A) peaceful change from monarchy to democracy was not very difficult
B) the Enlightenment Project had come to a dangerous and violent end
C) violent revolution was the only path to social justice
D) none of the above
سؤال
The first analysis of the problem of how we see depth was proposed by:

A) Locke
B) Berkeley
C) Hume
D) Kant
سؤال
According to Hume, the force that held together the objects of the mind (ideas) was:

A) gravity
B) apperception
C) the Transcendental Ego's Will
D) association
سؤال
Hume initially proposed three basic laws of association. He then argued, however, that one of them was not basic, but derived from another law (plus a sentiment). This nonbasic law was:

A) resemblance
B) contiguity
C) causality
D) frequency
سؤال
Hume's skepticism raised which later philosopher "from my dogmatic slumbers?"

A) Descartes
B) Locke
C) Spinoza
D) Kant
سؤال
The idea that we perceive the world directly, unmediated by ideas was advocated by:

A) Thomas Reid and the Scottish commonsense philosophers
B) Pierre Cabanis and the French Ideologues
C) Blaise Pascal and his fellow French Catholics
D) Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
سؤال
According to Kant, statements such as "Every event has a cause," or "Space is three dimensional" can never be disproved because:

A) they describe how the world (noumena) really is
B) our ideas (phenomena) are glued together by the "gravity" of association
C) the mind constructs experience by imposing various categories of understanding
D) disproving them would never be socially useful
سؤال
Kant believed that psychology cannot be a science because:

A) it is impossible to introspectively observe the Self
B) behavior is caused by too many confusing variables
C) human nature varies from culture to culture
D) the soul does not exist
سؤال
In 1748, __________ took a step Descartes would not, or could not, proclaiming that human beings are just machines, not very different from animals.

A) E. B. de Condillac
B) J. O. La Mettrie
C) Richard Wenkman
D) the Marquis de Condorcet
سؤال
The French naturalist philosophers replaced the Greek ethical goal of eudaemonia with ethical hedonism. Eudaemonia meant:

A) living one's life in order to get as much pleasure as possible
B) following the commandments of the Greek Gods
C) living well-flourishing
D) acting strictly in accord with reason, whether it made one happy or not
سؤال
The Scottish commonsense philosophers said that human moral judgments are based on:

A) correct understanding of the Bible
B) an innate moral sense
C) rewards and punishments administered by government
D) rational calculations of pain and pleasure
سؤال
Of all the philosophical systems of the 18th century, which was MOST INFLUENTIAL in the United States before the Civil War?

A) Humean skepticism
B) Scottish realism
C) Kantian idealism
D) French naturalism
سؤال
The ultimate social goal of the Enlightenment philosophes was for all people everywhere to live only according to:

A) the traditions of their own cultures
B) the tenets of Christianity
C) reason
D) a universal religion
سؤال
According to Berkeley's analysis of depth perception, we see the world in three dimensions because:

A) we directly perceive three dimensions, height, width, and depth
B) we infer depth from various sensory cues
C) the innate Categories of Perception impose three dimensional space on experience as a logically necessary preconception of consciousness
D) none of these
سؤال
Which of the following represents Kant's view of depth perception?

A) we directly perceive three dimensions, height, width, and depth
B) we infer depth from various sensory cues
C) the innate Categories of Perception impose three dimensional space on experience as a logically necessary preconception of consciousness
D) none of these
سؤال
Which of the following represents the Scottish Realist view of depth perception?

A) we directly perceive three dimensions, height, width, and depth
B) we infer depth from various sensory cues
C) the innate Categories of Perception impose three dimensional space on experience as a logically necessary preconception of consciousness
D) none of these
سؤال
According to Hume, general conclusions of the type "All swans are black," or "Every event has a cause" are:

A) innately given by God
B) habits derived from regularities in experience
C) logically derived proofs
D) Transcendental Categories of the mind
سؤال
If they could look at psychology as it is practiced today, Vico and Herder would be most unhappy with modern psychology's:

A) modeling itself on the natural sciences
B) failure to find universal laws of human behavior
C) overemphasis on the emotional determinants of behavior
D) focus on cultural issues
سؤال
The majority of modern cognitive psychologists believe that we have little, if any, access to our thought processes. Which philosophical psychologist also held that belief?

A) Descartes
B) Locke
C) Reid
D) Kant
سؤال
Match. During the 18th century, philosophers argued about human nature. Match the philosopher to their view of human nature.
-Thomas Hobbes

A) Human beings are naturally peaceful "noble savages".
B) Human nature is a blank slate that is shaped by culture and education.
C) Human beings are selfish and dangerous: without government there would be a war of everyone against everyone.
D) Human beings posses an innate "moral sense" that guides their actions.
سؤال
Match. During the 18th century, philosophers argued about human nature. Match the philosopher to their view of human nature.
-French empiricism

A) Human beings are naturally peaceful "noble savages".
B) Human nature is a blank slate that is shaped by culture and education.
C) Human beings are selfish and dangerous: without government there would be a war of everyone against everyone.
D) Human beings posses an innate "moral sense" that guides their actions.
سؤال
Match. During the 18th century, philosophers argued about human nature. Match the philosopher to their view of human nature.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A) Human beings are naturally peaceful "noble savages".
B) Human nature is a blank slate that is shaped by culture and education.
C) Human beings are selfish and dangerous: without government there would be a war of everyone against everyone.
D) Human beings posses an innate "moral sense" that guides their actions.
سؤال
Match. During the 18th century, philosophers argued about human nature. Match the philosopher to their view of human nature.
-Scottish commonsense philosophers

A) Human beings are naturally peaceful "noble savages".
B) Human nature is a blank slate that is shaped by culture and education.
C) Human beings are selfish and dangerous: without government there would be a war of everyone against everyone.
D) Human beings posses an innate "moral sense" that guides their actions.
سؤال
Berkeley's theory of depth perception and his philosophy of the mind later served as a basis for ________.

A) Skinner's behaviorism.
B) Lorenz's idea of imprinting.
C) E. B. Titchener's structuralism
D) Freud's theory of psychoanalysis.
سؤال
Berkeley's theory of depth perception supported his metaphysical argument that:

A) belief in an external world is more an act of faith than real Knowledge
B) children should able to perceive depth immediately from birth
C) we perceive the world realistically-as it is, without mental inferences
D) Kant's metaphysics was profoundly incorrect, even irrational
سؤال
Hume did his work in the Age of Reason, yet when it came to morality and deciding if we approve or disapprove of the action of ourselves and others it depends on ________.

A) our ability to apply reason and logic.
B) our innate moral rules.
C) common sense.
D) passion and our feelings.
سؤال
Although the concept of association of ideas is very old, only _________ made it into a central principle of mental operation, calling it the "gravity" of the mind.

A) Locke
B) Berkeley
C) Hume
D) Kant
سؤال
Which of the following thinkers was most responsible for the skeptical crisis of the 18th century?

A) Locke
B) Berkeley
C) Hume
D) Kant
سؤال
Hume argued that our ability to form generalizations, i.e., form true beliefs,

A) is a God-given mental faculty and is therefore a reliable source of knowledge
B) results from the Transcendental Ego's imposition of the Categories of Apperception on raw sensory experience
C) depends on careful use of demonstrative logic to prove our conclusions
D) is useful in the conduct of life and is found in children and animals, but does not guarantee Truth
سؤال
Regarding our ability to form generalizations, (i.e. form true beliefs), which of the following was the view of Reid (Scottish common sense philosopher)?

A) It is a God given innate mental faculty and is therefore a reliable source of knowledge.
B) It results from the Transcendental Ego's imposition of Categories of Apperception of raw sensor experience.
C) True beliefs arise only from experience thus all true beliefs depend on one's culture and upbringing.
D) All of these.
سؤال
Regarding our ability to form generalizations, (i.e. form true beliefs), which of the following was the view of Immanuel Kant?

A) It is a God-given mental faculty and is therefore a reliable source of knowledge
B) It results from the Transcendental Ego's imposition of the Categories of Apperception on raw sensory experience
C) It depends on careful use of demonstrative logic to prove our conclusions
D) It is useful in the conduct of life and is found in children and animals, but does not guarantee Truth
سؤال
Research on Pavlovian conditioning has found that acquisition of a conditional response is fastest when the CS precedes the US by ½ second. This finding illustrates which of Hume's laws of association?

A) resemblance
B) contiguity
C) causality
D) frequency
سؤال
Kant referred to things in themselves-the world outside human perception as:

A) phenomena
B) noumena
C) ideas
D) stimuli
سؤال
The author of the text uses the Wizard of Oz to illustrate Kant's point about phenomena. Imagine the citizens of OZ had green tinted contact lens implanted in their eyes at birth. Which of the following is a TRUTH that these citizens of OZ can assert that cannot be falsified in the realm of phenomena.

A) Some things look green, and some do not.
B) Everything is green in terms of phenomenon.
C) Nothing is green in terms of phenomenon.
D) Flying monkeys are scary!
سؤال
With respect to the possibility of psychology-defined as the introspective psychology of consciousness-becoming a science, Kant argued that:

A) psychology cannot, in principle, become a real science
B) it could become an imperfect science, like meteorology
C) it can become a science if it applies the approach of Newton
D) Hume had already created a true psychological science
سؤال
Taking the next logical step past Cartesian dualism, which said that the soul's only function is thinking, La Mettrie proposed that:

A) animals have souls similar to human souls
B) humans are just soulless machines, as are animals
C) animals are incapable of learning language
D) the human soul is unique in possessing memory and imagination
سؤال
Taking over the concepts of British empiricism, Condillac and the Ideologues:

A) argued that the Transcendental Ego was the innate source of all true knowledge and beliefs.
B) argued that empiricism was a dead end, and supported Kantian idealism
C) proposed that the mind was completely empty at birth, shaped exclusively by experience
D) concluded that reason was a poor guide to life, and turned to intense emotion instead
سؤال
Some Enlightenment thinkers, especially in France, were excited by the ideas of La Mettrie and Condillac because they implied that:

A) human nature was inherently good and unchangeable
B) religious belief, though not true, was socially useful
C) in a state of nature, the life of man is solitary, nasty, brutish, and short
D) people could be easily shaped into any from society might desire
سؤال
The idea that people have an innate moral sense that intuitively distinguishes right from wrong:

A) was proposed by the Scottish common-sense philosophers
B) led to the idea that psychology could be a distinct, moral, science
C) especially influential in the United States
D) all of the above
سؤال
David Hartley strove to see the mind through Newtonian eyes. Hartley believed in the close correspondence of mind and brain and ___________.

A) he proposed parallel laws of association for both in his physiological theory.
B) yet he refused to agree with associationism, instead he argued for nativism.
C) developed a major theory of hedonism.
D) none of these.
سؤال
With respect to the possibility of psychology-defined as the introspective psychology of consciousness-becoming a science, Vico argued that

A) psychology cannot, in principle, become an organized discipline
B) it could become an imperfect science, like meteorology
C) it could become a science by applying the methods of Newton
D) because people create local cultures, the human sciences should not be modeled on the natural sciences such as physics, but on history
سؤال
Jeremy Bentham described his ideas about utilitarian hedonism with the statement, "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, ______and ______.

A) reason, passion
B) nature, nurture
C) God, the Earth.
D) pain, pleasure
سؤال
From reading about the inhabitants of the Pacific islands, ______ concluded that in a state of nature people are "noble savages."

A) Rousseau
B) Herder
C) Condorcet
D) Berkeley
سؤال
Franz Mesmer's treatment for his patient's "functional illnesses" using mesmerism
Eventually transformed into ____________.

A) drug treatments for depression.
B) the field of career counseling.
C) the field of nursing.
D) hypnotism.
سؤال
Based on the historical events of the French Revolution, many thinkers concluded that

A) peaceful change from monarchy to democracy was not very difficult
B) the Enlightenment Project had come to a dangerous and violent end
C) violent revolution was the only path to social justice
D) none of the above
سؤال
Explain how the statement, "Let us study man as he is in order to teach him what he should be", represents the goals of the Enlightenment.
سؤال
Describe Descartes' and La Mettrie's contributions to the mechanistic conception of human thought and behavior.
سؤال
What does George Berkeley's famous motto "Esse est percipi" mean and how does it explain his answer to the question of how ideas correspond to "real objects" in the world?
سؤال
Discuss the deep similarity between Kant, Reid and Hume that lies beneath their differences?
سؤال
How did Hume show that no empirical generalization can ever be absolutely certain?
سؤال
Explain Kant's argument that there can never be a scientific psychology.
سؤال
How does Helvetius' radical environmentalism and naturalism derive from Descartes and Locke?
سؤال
Locke said that the mind had no sex and women might be educated as well as men. What did Rousseau believe about men and women and their roles in society?
سؤال
Distinguish between Naturwissenschaft and Geisteswissenschaft.
سؤال
Box 6.2 "Science, Modernity, and the Counter-Enlightenment" discusses the point that a central idea of the Enlightenment was that people should live by the light of reason alone. If this is true, should one feel guilty for their sins? (Explain your answer).
سؤال
When it comes to Nature versus Civilization which side is Rousseau on and why did he reject the Enlightenment?
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Deck 6: The Enlightenment 1700-1815
1
Which of the following was NOT one of the perceived enemies of the Enlightenment Project?

A) religion
B) science
C) tradition
D) the aristocracy
B
2
Which of the following was considered to be the "The lamp of the Enlightenment"?

A) Hume
B) Newton
C) c. Locke
D) d. Kant
B
3
The 17th century figure who had the most influence on Enlightenment philosophy was:

A) Descartes
B) Galileo
C) Newton
D) Hobbes
C
4
Locke argued for two fountains of knowledge or kinds of experience. The two types were _________ and _________.

A) positive, negative
B) passionate, cerebral (i.e. thinking)
C) personal, community
D) sensation, reflection
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If you thought of certain thinkers as bookends on different shelves of a library, then ______ would be the bookend that closes out the premodern era and ________ would be the bookend sitting at the beginning of the modern thought section.

A) Locke, Descartes
B) Descartes, Locke
C) Locke, Galileo
D) Reid, Leahey
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When it came to answering the thorny question, "Do we have free will"? Locke answered:

A) Yes, one can always choose a course of action even if it is painful.
B) No, one's choice is determined by innate moral rules.
C) By reframing the issue, he argued what matters is freedom of action, not will.
D) That it was an irrelevant question, and could never be answered.
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Berkeley's theory of depth perception supported his metaphysical argument that

A) belief in an external world is more an act of faith than real Knowledge
B) children should able to perceive depth immediately from birth
C) we perceive the world realistically-as it is, without mental inferences
D) Kant's metaphysics was profoundly incorrect, even irrational
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Although the concept of association of ideas is very old, only _________ made it into a central principle of mental operation, calling it the "gravity" of the mind.

A) Locke
B) Berkeley
C) Hume
D) Kant
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Which of the following thinkers was most responsible for the skeptical crisis of the 18th century?

A) Locke
B) Berkeley
C) Hume
D) Kant
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Hume argued that our ability to form generalizations, i.e., form true beliefs,

A) is a God-given mental faculty and is therefore a reliable source of knowledge
B) results from the Transcendental Ego's imposition of the Categories of Apperception on raw sensory experience
C) depends on careful use of demonstrative logic to prove our conclusions
D) is useful in the conduct of life and is found in children and animals, but does not guarantee Truth
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Which of the following was the view of Reid and the Scots?

A) is a God-given mental faculty and is therefore a reliable source of knowledge
B) results from the Transcendental Ego's imposition of the Categories of Apperception on raw sensory experience
C) depends on careful use of demonstrative logic to prove our conclusions
D) is useful in the conduct of life and is found in children and animals, but does not guarantee Truth
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Which of the following was the view of Immanuel Kant?

A) is a God-given mental faculty and is therefore a reliable source of knowledge
B) results from the Transcendental Ego's imposition of the Categories of Apperception on raw sensory experience
C) depends on careful use of demonstrative logic to prove our conclusions
D) is useful in the conduct of life and is found in children and animals, but does not guarantee Truth
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Research on Pavlovian conditioning has found that acquisition of a conditional response is fastest when the CS precedes the US by ½ second. This finding illustrates which of Hume's laws of association?

A) resemblance
B) contiguity
C) causality
D) frequency
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Kant referred to things in themselves-the world outside human perception as:

A) phenomena
B) noumena
C) ideas
D) stimuli
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With respect to the possibility of psychology-defined as the introspective psychology of consciousness-becoming a science, Kant argued that:

A) psychology cannot, in principle, become a real science
B) it could become an imperfect science, like meteorology
C) it can become a science if it applies the approach of Newton
D) Hume had already created a true psychological science
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16
Taking the next logical step past Cartesian dualism, which said that the soul's only function is thinking, La Mettrie proposed that:

A) animals have souls similar to human souls
B) humans are just soulless machines, as are animals
C) animals are incapable of learning language
D) the human soul is unique in possessing memory and imagination
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Taking over the concepts of British empiricism, Condillac and the Ideologues:

A) formed a rock band (Grammy winning CD: The Way of Ideas)
B) argued that empiricism was a dead end, and supported Kantian idealism
C) proposed that the mind was completely empty at birth, shaped exclusively by experience
D) concluded that reason was a poor guide to life, and turned to intense emotion instead
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Some Enlightenment thinkers, especially in France, were excited by the ideas of La Mettrie and Condillac because they implied that:

A) human nature was inherently good and unchangeable
B) religious belief, though not true, was socially useful
C) in a state of nature, the life of man is solitary, nasty, brutish, and short
D) people could be easily shaped into any from society might desire
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The idea that people have an innate moral sense that intuitively distinguishes right from wrong:

A) was proposed by the Scottish common-sense philosophers
B) led to the idea that psychology could be a distinct, moral, science
C) especially influential in the United States
D) all of the above
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20
With respect to the possibility of psychology-defined as the introspective psychology of consciousness-becoming a science, Vico argued that:

A) psychology cannot, in principle, become a real science
B) it could become an imperfect science, like meteorology
C) it could become a science by applying the methods of Newton
D) because people create local cultures, the human sciences should not be modeled on the natural sciences such as physics, but on history
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21
From reading about the inhabitants of the Pacific islands, ______ concluded that in a state of nature people are "noble savages."

A) Rousseau
B) Herder
C) Condorcet
D) Berkeley
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22
From the course of the French Revolution, many thinkers concluded that:

A) peaceful change from monarchy to democracy was not very difficult
B) the Enlightenment Project had come to a dangerous and violent end
C) violent revolution was the only path to social justice
D) none of the above
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23
The first analysis of the problem of how we see depth was proposed by:

A) Locke
B) Berkeley
C) Hume
D) Kant
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24
According to Hume, the force that held together the objects of the mind (ideas) was:

A) gravity
B) apperception
C) the Transcendental Ego's Will
D) association
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25
Hume initially proposed three basic laws of association. He then argued, however, that one of them was not basic, but derived from another law (plus a sentiment). This nonbasic law was:

A) resemblance
B) contiguity
C) causality
D) frequency
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26
Hume's skepticism raised which later philosopher "from my dogmatic slumbers?"

A) Descartes
B) Locke
C) Spinoza
D) Kant
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27
The idea that we perceive the world directly, unmediated by ideas was advocated by:

A) Thomas Reid and the Scottish commonsense philosophers
B) Pierre Cabanis and the French Ideologues
C) Blaise Pascal and his fellow French Catholics
D) Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
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28
According to Kant, statements such as "Every event has a cause," or "Space is three dimensional" can never be disproved because:

A) they describe how the world (noumena) really is
B) our ideas (phenomena) are glued together by the "gravity" of association
C) the mind constructs experience by imposing various categories of understanding
D) disproving them would never be socially useful
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29
Kant believed that psychology cannot be a science because:

A) it is impossible to introspectively observe the Self
B) behavior is caused by too many confusing variables
C) human nature varies from culture to culture
D) the soul does not exist
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30
In 1748, __________ took a step Descartes would not, or could not, proclaiming that human beings are just machines, not very different from animals.

A) E. B. de Condillac
B) J. O. La Mettrie
C) Richard Wenkman
D) the Marquis de Condorcet
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31
The French naturalist philosophers replaced the Greek ethical goal of eudaemonia with ethical hedonism. Eudaemonia meant:

A) living one's life in order to get as much pleasure as possible
B) following the commandments of the Greek Gods
C) living well-flourishing
D) acting strictly in accord with reason, whether it made one happy or not
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32
The Scottish commonsense philosophers said that human moral judgments are based on:

A) correct understanding of the Bible
B) an innate moral sense
C) rewards and punishments administered by government
D) rational calculations of pain and pleasure
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33
Of all the philosophical systems of the 18th century, which was MOST INFLUENTIAL in the United States before the Civil War?

A) Humean skepticism
B) Scottish realism
C) Kantian idealism
D) French naturalism
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34
The ultimate social goal of the Enlightenment philosophes was for all people everywhere to live only according to:

A) the traditions of their own cultures
B) the tenets of Christianity
C) reason
D) a universal religion
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35
According to Berkeley's analysis of depth perception, we see the world in three dimensions because:

A) we directly perceive three dimensions, height, width, and depth
B) we infer depth from various sensory cues
C) the innate Categories of Perception impose three dimensional space on experience as a logically necessary preconception of consciousness
D) none of these
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36
Which of the following represents Kant's view of depth perception?

A) we directly perceive three dimensions, height, width, and depth
B) we infer depth from various sensory cues
C) the innate Categories of Perception impose three dimensional space on experience as a logically necessary preconception of consciousness
D) none of these
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37
Which of the following represents the Scottish Realist view of depth perception?

A) we directly perceive three dimensions, height, width, and depth
B) we infer depth from various sensory cues
C) the innate Categories of Perception impose three dimensional space on experience as a logically necessary preconception of consciousness
D) none of these
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38
According to Hume, general conclusions of the type "All swans are black," or "Every event has a cause" are:

A) innately given by God
B) habits derived from regularities in experience
C) logically derived proofs
D) Transcendental Categories of the mind
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39
If they could look at psychology as it is practiced today, Vico and Herder would be most unhappy with modern psychology's:

A) modeling itself on the natural sciences
B) failure to find universal laws of human behavior
C) overemphasis on the emotional determinants of behavior
D) focus on cultural issues
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40
The majority of modern cognitive psychologists believe that we have little, if any, access to our thought processes. Which philosophical psychologist also held that belief?

A) Descartes
B) Locke
C) Reid
D) Kant
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41
Match. During the 18th century, philosophers argued about human nature. Match the philosopher to their view of human nature.
-Thomas Hobbes

A) Human beings are naturally peaceful "noble savages".
B) Human nature is a blank slate that is shaped by culture and education.
C) Human beings are selfish and dangerous: without government there would be a war of everyone against everyone.
D) Human beings posses an innate "moral sense" that guides their actions.
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42
Match. During the 18th century, philosophers argued about human nature. Match the philosopher to their view of human nature.
-French empiricism

A) Human beings are naturally peaceful "noble savages".
B) Human nature is a blank slate that is shaped by culture and education.
C) Human beings are selfish and dangerous: without government there would be a war of everyone against everyone.
D) Human beings posses an innate "moral sense" that guides their actions.
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43
Match. During the 18th century, philosophers argued about human nature. Match the philosopher to their view of human nature.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A) Human beings are naturally peaceful "noble savages".
B) Human nature is a blank slate that is shaped by culture and education.
C) Human beings are selfish and dangerous: without government there would be a war of everyone against everyone.
D) Human beings posses an innate "moral sense" that guides their actions.
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44
Match. During the 18th century, philosophers argued about human nature. Match the philosopher to their view of human nature.
-Scottish commonsense philosophers

A) Human beings are naturally peaceful "noble savages".
B) Human nature is a blank slate that is shaped by culture and education.
C) Human beings are selfish and dangerous: without government there would be a war of everyone against everyone.
D) Human beings posses an innate "moral sense" that guides their actions.
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45
Berkeley's theory of depth perception and his philosophy of the mind later served as a basis for ________.

A) Skinner's behaviorism.
B) Lorenz's idea of imprinting.
C) E. B. Titchener's structuralism
D) Freud's theory of psychoanalysis.
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46
Berkeley's theory of depth perception supported his metaphysical argument that:

A) belief in an external world is more an act of faith than real Knowledge
B) children should able to perceive depth immediately from birth
C) we perceive the world realistically-as it is, without mental inferences
D) Kant's metaphysics was profoundly incorrect, even irrational
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47
Hume did his work in the Age of Reason, yet when it came to morality and deciding if we approve or disapprove of the action of ourselves and others it depends on ________.

A) our ability to apply reason and logic.
B) our innate moral rules.
C) common sense.
D) passion and our feelings.
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48
Although the concept of association of ideas is very old, only _________ made it into a central principle of mental operation, calling it the "gravity" of the mind.

A) Locke
B) Berkeley
C) Hume
D) Kant
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49
Which of the following thinkers was most responsible for the skeptical crisis of the 18th century?

A) Locke
B) Berkeley
C) Hume
D) Kant
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50
Hume argued that our ability to form generalizations, i.e., form true beliefs,

A) is a God-given mental faculty and is therefore a reliable source of knowledge
B) results from the Transcendental Ego's imposition of the Categories of Apperception on raw sensory experience
C) depends on careful use of demonstrative logic to prove our conclusions
D) is useful in the conduct of life and is found in children and animals, but does not guarantee Truth
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51
Regarding our ability to form generalizations, (i.e. form true beliefs), which of the following was the view of Reid (Scottish common sense philosopher)?

A) It is a God given innate mental faculty and is therefore a reliable source of knowledge.
B) It results from the Transcendental Ego's imposition of Categories of Apperception of raw sensor experience.
C) True beliefs arise only from experience thus all true beliefs depend on one's culture and upbringing.
D) All of these.
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52
Regarding our ability to form generalizations, (i.e. form true beliefs), which of the following was the view of Immanuel Kant?

A) It is a God-given mental faculty and is therefore a reliable source of knowledge
B) It results from the Transcendental Ego's imposition of the Categories of Apperception on raw sensory experience
C) It depends on careful use of demonstrative logic to prove our conclusions
D) It is useful in the conduct of life and is found in children and animals, but does not guarantee Truth
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53
Research on Pavlovian conditioning has found that acquisition of a conditional response is fastest when the CS precedes the US by ½ second. This finding illustrates which of Hume's laws of association?

A) resemblance
B) contiguity
C) causality
D) frequency
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54
Kant referred to things in themselves-the world outside human perception as:

A) phenomena
B) noumena
C) ideas
D) stimuli
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55
The author of the text uses the Wizard of Oz to illustrate Kant's point about phenomena. Imagine the citizens of OZ had green tinted contact lens implanted in their eyes at birth. Which of the following is a TRUTH that these citizens of OZ can assert that cannot be falsified in the realm of phenomena.

A) Some things look green, and some do not.
B) Everything is green in terms of phenomenon.
C) Nothing is green in terms of phenomenon.
D) Flying monkeys are scary!
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56
With respect to the possibility of psychology-defined as the introspective psychology of consciousness-becoming a science, Kant argued that:

A) psychology cannot, in principle, become a real science
B) it could become an imperfect science, like meteorology
C) it can become a science if it applies the approach of Newton
D) Hume had already created a true psychological science
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57
Taking the next logical step past Cartesian dualism, which said that the soul's only function is thinking, La Mettrie proposed that:

A) animals have souls similar to human souls
B) humans are just soulless machines, as are animals
C) animals are incapable of learning language
D) the human soul is unique in possessing memory and imagination
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58
Taking over the concepts of British empiricism, Condillac and the Ideologues:

A) argued that the Transcendental Ego was the innate source of all true knowledge and beliefs.
B) argued that empiricism was a dead end, and supported Kantian idealism
C) proposed that the mind was completely empty at birth, shaped exclusively by experience
D) concluded that reason was a poor guide to life, and turned to intense emotion instead
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59
Some Enlightenment thinkers, especially in France, were excited by the ideas of La Mettrie and Condillac because they implied that:

A) human nature was inherently good and unchangeable
B) religious belief, though not true, was socially useful
C) in a state of nature, the life of man is solitary, nasty, brutish, and short
D) people could be easily shaped into any from society might desire
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60
The idea that people have an innate moral sense that intuitively distinguishes right from wrong:

A) was proposed by the Scottish common-sense philosophers
B) led to the idea that psychology could be a distinct, moral, science
C) especially influential in the United States
D) all of the above
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61
David Hartley strove to see the mind through Newtonian eyes. Hartley believed in the close correspondence of mind and brain and ___________.

A) he proposed parallel laws of association for both in his physiological theory.
B) yet he refused to agree with associationism, instead he argued for nativism.
C) developed a major theory of hedonism.
D) none of these.
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62
With respect to the possibility of psychology-defined as the introspective psychology of consciousness-becoming a science, Vico argued that

A) psychology cannot, in principle, become an organized discipline
B) it could become an imperfect science, like meteorology
C) it could become a science by applying the methods of Newton
D) because people create local cultures, the human sciences should not be modeled on the natural sciences such as physics, but on history
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63
Jeremy Bentham described his ideas about utilitarian hedonism with the statement, "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, ______and ______.

A) reason, passion
B) nature, nurture
C) God, the Earth.
D) pain, pleasure
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64
From reading about the inhabitants of the Pacific islands, ______ concluded that in a state of nature people are "noble savages."

A) Rousseau
B) Herder
C) Condorcet
D) Berkeley
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65
Franz Mesmer's treatment for his patient's "functional illnesses" using mesmerism
Eventually transformed into ____________.

A) drug treatments for depression.
B) the field of career counseling.
C) the field of nursing.
D) hypnotism.
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66
Based on the historical events of the French Revolution, many thinkers concluded that

A) peaceful change from monarchy to democracy was not very difficult
B) the Enlightenment Project had come to a dangerous and violent end
C) violent revolution was the only path to social justice
D) none of the above
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67
Explain how the statement, "Let us study man as he is in order to teach him what he should be", represents the goals of the Enlightenment.
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68
Describe Descartes' and La Mettrie's contributions to the mechanistic conception of human thought and behavior.
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69
What does George Berkeley's famous motto "Esse est percipi" mean and how does it explain his answer to the question of how ideas correspond to "real objects" in the world?
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70
Discuss the deep similarity between Kant, Reid and Hume that lies beneath their differences?
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71
How did Hume show that no empirical generalization can ever be absolutely certain?
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72
Explain Kant's argument that there can never be a scientific psychology.
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73
How does Helvetius' radical environmentalism and naturalism derive from Descartes and Locke?
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74
Locke said that the mind had no sex and women might be educated as well as men. What did Rousseau believe about men and women and their roles in society?
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75
Distinguish between Naturwissenschaft and Geisteswissenschaft.
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76
Box 6.2 "Science, Modernity, and the Counter-Enlightenment" discusses the point that a central idea of the Enlightenment was that people should live by the light of reason alone. If this is true, should one feel guilty for their sins? (Explain your answer).
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77
When it comes to Nature versus Civilization which side is Rousseau on and why did he reject the Enlightenment?
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