Chapter 3 Review
PSYCH 434

1. Events following the death of Aristotle created a situation in which people sought:

answers to questions concerning problems of everyday living
the first principles or universals that underlie physical reality
philosophical certainty
a solution to Zeno’s paradox

2. In general, _______ promoted a suspenstion of belief in anything and _______ promoted

cynicism; skepticism
skepticism; cynicism
Epicureans; stoics
Stoics; Epicureans

3. Epicurus believed all of the following except

the goal of life was happiness
people should avoid excesses
the soul left the body at death and was judged by God
reason and choice had to be exercised in order to live a balanced life

4. The Roman Empire’s emphasis on law and order fit well with

skepticism
cynicism
Epicureanism
Stoicism

5. The fact that St. Paul _____ would have been abhorrent to most Greek philosophers.

valued faith above reason
valued reason above faith
valued intuition above empirical observation
valued Epicureanism above stoicism

6. For St. Augustine, the primary goal of human existence was to

seek pleasure and avoid pain
accept one’s fate
enter into a personal, emotional union with God
engage in active reason

7. According to Lombard, all of the following was a way of knowing God except

faith
reason
the study of God’s works (the empirical world)
avoiding sensory experience

8. Abelard taught that

the existence of God cannot be proved, God’s existence must be taken on faith
average people cannot reason carefully and therefore they must take God’s existence on faith
if God’s exists, all method of inquiry should prove that fact
if we have a word for something then something must exist that corresponds to that word

9. Aristotle’s emphasis on _______ placed the church in a difficult position.

faith
the supernatural
reason
Plato's philosophy

10. The Scholastics made _______ contributions to philosophy and psychology.

many significant
a few significant
essentially no significant
a large number of minor

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