Exam 2: Philosophical Influences on Psychology

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Descartes changed the focus from the study of ____ to the study of ____.​

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The body will respond without any internal conscious intent to some external stimulus.This fact illustrates Descartes' principle of ____.​

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"If a tree falls in the forest and no one is present to hear it,a sound will still occur because God is the permanent perceiver of all objects in the universe." This argument illustrates the position of ____.​

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The materialists argued that consciousness could be understood in accordance with the principles of physics and chemistry.​

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The notion of secondary qualities was proposed by Locke to explain ____.​

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In eyewitness testimony,one swears that what one has observed accurately depicts reality.Because this "fact" has not been determined through the methods of science,it does not meet Comtes' strictest application of ____.​

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Rote learning has at its core Hartley's law of repetition.​

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If a tree falls in the forest and no one is present to hear it,then the fall makes no sound.Using Locke's distinctions,this conclusion assumes that the sound is a(n)____.​

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Derived ideas ____.​

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Descartes theorized that we are born with knowledge of the axioms of geometry.Thus,these axioms are ____ ideas.​

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The doctrine that recognizes only natural phenomena or facts that are objectively observable is ____.​

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The idea that science should be based totally on objectively observable facts is called ____.​

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Define mechanism and describe how the idea of mechanism affected and was affected by physics,concepts of God,and the methods and findings of science.How was the concept of mechanism applied to human beings?​

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​Descartes makes a case that because the body is matter the laws of ____ apply.

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Define determinism and reductionism and describe their relationship to the development of clocks and automata.Why was the mechanical clock the ideal metaphor for the spirit of mechanism?​

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The doctrine that all knowledge is a function of mental phenomena and is dependent on the perceiving or experiencing person is an illustration of ____.​

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The doctrine that challenged theological authority as a source of knowledge was determinism.​

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Complex ideas formed from simple ideas take on new qualities.This is a definition of ____.​

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James Mill's model says that all knowledge ____.​

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In the 20th century,Hull described and explained behavior by mathematical formulas,axioms,and postulates.Thus,he illustrated whose notion that certainty of knowledge is accomplished by the application of mathematics to science?​

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