Exam 3: Early Notions About Learning

J.S.Mill departed from traditional empiricism by claiming that:

Which philosopher believed that the purpose of societal rules and regulations was to protect humans from their own aggressive impulses?

According to Plato, objects in the physical world are caused by an interaction of:

_____ is the belief that the mind is actively involved in the creation of knowledge.

Which of the following do you associate with functionalism?

The study of the location of bumps and depressions on a person's skull in order to determine his or her strong and weak faculties is called:

Who is associated with the reminiscence theory of knowledge?

The functionalist school was strongly influenced by:

Which of the following philosophers was the first to describe reflex action?

The major research tool of the structuralist was:

_______ is the belief that some form of knowledge is inherited.

The school of structuralism was founded by:

To whom do you attribute the statement, "Consciousness cannot be reduced into elements.Rather, consciousness functions as a unity whose purpose is to allow the organism to adjust to its environment"?

Locke's major argument against the existence of innate ideas is as follows:

According to Reid, we can trust that our senses reflect physical reality because:

The first phrenologist was:

Aristotle's philosophy:

The first psychologist to make a thoroughly empirical study of association was:

The founder of the functionalist school was:

A student is required to study mathematics because it is believed that such study will facilitate the learning of foreign languages.Such a belief exemplifies: