Descartes is best described as having been a(n) ____.
a. functionalist
b. behaviorist
c. empiricist
d. rationalist
Ques. 2Psychology is sometimes viewed as a merging of ____.
a. philosophy and monism
b. rationalism and physiology
c. physiology and empiricism
d. philosophy and physiology
Ques. 3Elma, an automobile factory worker, learns how to install a car air conditioner by watching a fellow worker install the part. The knowledge Elma has just acquired is ____ acquired knowledge.
a. experimentally
b. reductively
c. innately
d. empirically
Ques. 4Theresa, the assistant principal of a middle school, often finds herself dealing with accusations of wrongdoing made by one student against another. When she does so, she will not accept circumstantial evidence. Instead, Theresa allows only evidence that she can see, or hard, observational evidence, to be used in deciding whether a student has violated rules. Theresa could be referred to as a(n) ____.
a. monist
b. empiricist
c. rationalist
d. nativist
Ques. 5Which approach emphasizes observable evidence as the means to acquiring new knowledge?
a. rationalism
b. monism
c. empiricism
d. nativism
Ques. 6An empiricist ____.
a. believes that knowledge is acquired through experience and observation.
b. is a follower of Plato's rationalist philosophy about the source of knowledge
c. supports the idea of mind-body dualism
d. believes that the mind and the body are separate entities
Ques. 7Which approach emphasizes logical analysis as the means to acquiring new knowledge?
a. tabula rasa
b. synthesis
c. rationalism
d. empiricism
Ques. 8Rationalism is to ____ as empiricism is to ____.
a. observable evidence; theory
b. theory; observable evidence
c. manipulation; measure
d. hypothesis; theory
Ques. 9A rationalist ____.
a. uses logical analysis to understand the world and people's relations to it
b. is a follower of Aristotle's empiricist philosophy
c. supports the idea of monism over dualism
d. believes that knowledge is acquired through experience and observation
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