PHIL 100 Quiz 1:
Question 1 Our beliefs are much more likely to be true if they are based on _______. Correct Answer: evidence
Question 2 Relativism leads to tolerance and open-mindedness. Correct Answer: False
Question 3 Cogent reasoning is only based on empirical evidence. Correct Answer: False Question 4 To be fallible is to ________. Correct Answer: admit that virtually all of your beliefs could be false Question 5 Faith can be used to justify ______. Correct Answer: anything
General Phil Chapter 2 Quiz
Question 1 0.5 out of 0.5 points Correct The following is an argument: "Kevin grew up in Oklahoma, so he knows what Oklahomans need most from a meterolgist". Answer Correct Answer: True
Question 2 0.5 out of 0.5 points Correct
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Answer Correct Answer: False
Quiz 4
Question 1 1 out of 1 points Correct Perception can be influenced by our wishes. Answer Correct Answer: True Question 2 1 out of 1 points Correct Misperception is important to try to recognize when it happens, although it is fairly rare. Answer Correct Answer: False
Question 3 1 out of 1 points Correct Ambiguous figures show that having the same sensory input is sufficient for seeing the same thing. Answer Correct Answer: False Question 4 1 out of 1 points Correct The fact that most people who think that the media is biased think that it is biased against their views is called __________. Answer Correct Answer: the hostile media phenomenon
Question 5 1 out of 1 points Correct When you move from information to a conclusion you make a ___________. Answer Correct Answer: Evaluation Method Correct Answer Case Sensitivity Exact Match inference Question 6 1 out of 1 points Correct bottom-up processing is processing of visual information that involves expectations and beliefs. Answer Correct Answer: False Question 7 1 out of 1 points Correct we do not experience everything in our perceptual field. Answer Correct Answer: True
Question 8 0 out of 1 points Incorrect The "it looked like a bear" example where two hunters shot their friend is an example of the phoneme restoration effect. Answer Correct Answer: False
Question 9 1 out of 1 points Correct The Dartmouth/Prinston football study is an example of which of
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.
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.