Chapter 6 Review
PSYCH 434

1. By equating God and nature, Spinoza

eliminated the distinction between the sacred and the secular
denied the existence of an anthropomorphic God and revelation
embraced pantheism
all of the above

2. According to Spinoza, we felt good when we

acted for the good of other humans
found clear ideas
acted in accordance with the dictates of the Christian church
acted contrary to natural law

3. For Leibniz, sensory experience was important because it

produced the ideas that occurred in the mind
provided the pleasurable and painful experiences that guide our behavior
allowed the potential ideas within us to become actualized
provided another way of knowing God

4. Leibniz’s term for awareness was

petites perceptions
limen
apperception
epiphenomenon

5. According to Reid, we could trust our notions about the physical world because

of the acuteness of the senses
it made common sense to do so
Hume’s logic was faulty
such notions are innate

6. According to Kant

we must be forever ignorant of physical reality
Hum’s contention that we can never know the physical world was just plain silly
physical reality is jut as we perceive it to be
we can trust our sensory experience accurately reflects physical reality because God would not deceive us

7. According to Herbart, the _______ contained all of the ideas to which we were attending

mind
empirical ego
apperceptive mass
transcendental ego

8. Herbart’s concepts of the unconscious, repression, and conflict most likely affected the theory of

Fechner
Freud
Watson
Titchener

9. Which one of the following is not one of the three parts of the dialectic process of Hegel?

synthesis
antithesis
thesis
conflict

10. By alienation, Hegel meant the realization that

one’s mind existed apart from the absolute
people were separated from the fruits of their labor
people become separated from their natural tendency toward self-actualization
people had become separated from their basic roots in nature

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