PHIL 100 Quiz 1

Tong used binocular rivalry to test brain response when the person perceived a house or a face. When the person perceived the house, activity in the ___________ increased.

A. Protrusion of the disk material may impinge on nerve roots that exit through intervertebral foramina.

C. Illusions, are simple perceptions, which although produced by an external stimulus are misinterpreted by the client. The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a perception that does not tally with the physical measurement of the stimulus source.

4. In interpersonal relationships, most people operate from a _________ until they discover that someone lied to them.

13. Which of the following is the best strategy for linking evidence to your ideas in an argument? (Points : 5)

William James (1897), on the other hand, attempts to define the permissible cases in which it is intellectually respectable to believe without sufficient evidence. James (1897) begins by providing three criterion for judging beliefs: either beliefs are 1) living or dead; 2) forced or avoidable; or 3) momentous or trivial.

Part B: How might each of the following concepts affect the results of the study?

The human brain is capable of perceiving and interpreting information or stimuli received through the sense organs (i.e., eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin) (Weiten, 1998). This ability to perceive and interpret stimulus allows the human being to make meaningful sense of the world and environment around them. However, even as the human being is able to perceive and interpret stimuli information through all sense organs, stimuli is most often or primarily interpreted using the visual (eyes) and auditory (ears) sense organs (Anderson, 2009). However, for the purpose of this paper, the visual information process will be examined.

1. If I am dreaming, most of my beliefs about the things around me are false.

If mental events are identical to physical events they must fulfill the condition of coexistence in space.

5. Therefore, you can’t know anything about the external world based on your sensory experiences.

a. I have solid, well-considered ethical beliefs that can be altered only by reasoned arguments or new evidence.

Q1A) In what ways does the biological constitution of a living organism determine, influence or limit its sense perception?

Because our perception constantly changes, we are unable to experience all the impressions at the same time.

4. The existence of God remains a matter of faith since it’s difficult to "prove" God to someone who does not believe.