PSYC-375 History of Psychology
Midterm 2025/2026 Exam Questions and
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Of the following, who would be most likely to take the position that humans
are responsible for their actions? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Non determinist and soft
determinist
_________________ emphasizes the works of individuals who most
prominently contributed to a topic such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes,
Darwin of Freud in - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The Great-person approach.
The approach which shows how various individuals or events contributed to
change in an idea or concept throughout the years. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Historical Development
Popper believed that the problem with observations was that - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔it is selective.
,Poppers believed that there was three stages of obervations - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔view of the problem, theories (proposed solutions), and criticism
Kuhn refers to Normal Science as - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Mopping-up operation
of paradigm.
Following a paradigm, scientists explore in depth problems defined by the
paradigm and utilize the techniques suggested by the paradigm while
exploring those problems. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Normal Science
The theory in which all scientific theory must be able to be proven false in
order for it to be considered scientific - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Principle of
Falsifiability
______________ explains the reason Popper though that empirical
observation was too vague and unrefutability. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Principle of
Falsafibility
The potential of theory being incorrect. Popper believes this is a must to be
scientific - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Risky Prediction
Popper believes that in order to of a theory to be scientific they must
include - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Risky Predictions.
,The theory in which you make sense of a theory or explain a phenomenon
after it has occurred - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Post-diction
Popper thought that empirical observation gave the notion that - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Scientists just wonder around observing and explaining what
they observe
Popper __________ that scientific activity starts with empirical observation.
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Disagree
Emphasizes the influence s of other factors such as political, technology,
and economic conditions. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Zeitgeist
A combination of __________________ and _________________ is used
to understand history. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Presentism and Historicism
The focus of looking at the past for it's own sake. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Historicism
The focus on looking at psychology today and attempting to show how it
become that way. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Presentism
The ____ stresses a person's beliefs, emotions, perceptions, values, and
goals as determinants of behavior. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Soft Determinist
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, For Aristotle, sensory experience - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔was necessary but not
sufficient for attaining knowledge
According to Aristotle, we perceive environmental objects because: - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔their movement influences a medium, which in turn
stimulates one or more of the five senses
Protagorus, the best known Sophist, presented the Sophist's position.
Which of the following is not representative of the position? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔what is truth is not affected by the cultterm-5ure in which one lives
Socrates used the method of ____ to determine what all examples of a
concept such as beauty had in common. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔inductive
definition
The force that transforms matter into a particular form is its ____ cause. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔efficient
____ stresses the emotional or unconscious determinants of human
behavior. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Irrationalism
The study of knowledge is called: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔epistemology
Midterm 2025/2026 Exam Questions and
Verified Answers | Already Graded A+
Of the following, who would be most likely to take the position that humans
are responsible for their actions? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Non determinist and soft
determinist
_________________ emphasizes the works of individuals who most
prominently contributed to a topic such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes,
Darwin of Freud in - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The Great-person approach.
The approach which shows how various individuals or events contributed to
change in an idea or concept throughout the years. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Historical Development
Popper believed that the problem with observations was that - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔it is selective.
,Poppers believed that there was three stages of obervations - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔view of the problem, theories (proposed solutions), and criticism
Kuhn refers to Normal Science as - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Mopping-up operation
of paradigm.
Following a paradigm, scientists explore in depth problems defined by the
paradigm and utilize the techniques suggested by the paradigm while
exploring those problems. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Normal Science
The theory in which all scientific theory must be able to be proven false in
order for it to be considered scientific - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Principle of
Falsifiability
______________ explains the reason Popper though that empirical
observation was too vague and unrefutability. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Principle of
Falsafibility
The potential of theory being incorrect. Popper believes this is a must to be
scientific - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Risky Prediction
Popper believes that in order to of a theory to be scientific they must
include - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Risky Predictions.
,The theory in which you make sense of a theory or explain a phenomenon
after it has occurred - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Post-diction
Popper thought that empirical observation gave the notion that - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Scientists just wonder around observing and explaining what
they observe
Popper __________ that scientific activity starts with empirical observation.
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Disagree
Emphasizes the influence s of other factors such as political, technology,
and economic conditions. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Zeitgeist
A combination of __________________ and _________________ is used
to understand history. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Presentism and Historicism
The focus of looking at the past for it's own sake. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Historicism
The focus on looking at psychology today and attempting to show how it
become that way. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Presentism
The ____ stresses a person's beliefs, emotions, perceptions, values, and
goals as determinants of behavior. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Soft Determinist
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, For Aristotle, sensory experience - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔was necessary but not
sufficient for attaining knowledge
According to Aristotle, we perceive environmental objects because: - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔their movement influences a medium, which in turn
stimulates one or more of the five senses
Protagorus, the best known Sophist, presented the Sophist's position.
Which of the following is not representative of the position? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔what is truth is not affected by the cultterm-5ure in which one lives
Socrates used the method of ____ to determine what all examples of a
concept such as beauty had in common. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔inductive
definition
The force that transforms matter into a particular form is its ____ cause. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔efficient
____ stresses the emotional or unconscious determinants of human
behavior. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Irrationalism
The study of knowledge is called: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔epistemology
