Question: Hegel did not have a static view of the world, human thought and behavior. This is most evident by his concept of the:
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Answer: B – dialectic
Question: Herbart was one of the first to:
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Answer: A – apply a mathematical model to psychology
Question: Herbart’s concepts of the unconscious, repression, and conflict most likely affected the theory of _____.
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Answer: B – Freud
Question: The romantics defined the good life as one lived in accordance with:
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Answer: C – one’s own inner nature
Question: The statement, “Man is born free and yet we see him everywhere in chains” is associated with:
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Answer: D – Rousseau
Question: What did Rousseau trust most as a guide for human conduct?
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Answer: B – personal feelings
Question: Hobbes, along with many theologians and philosophers, believed human nature to be _____, whereas Rousseau believed it to be basically _____.
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Answer: C – animalistic; good
Question: Rousseau referred to a hypothetical human who is uncontaminated by society as a(n):
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Answer: B – noble savage
Question: Rousseau believed that education should:
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Answer: A – stimulate the development of a child’s natural impulses
Question: Who viewed life as consisting of opposing forces such as love and hate, or good and evil?
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Answer: C – Goethe
Question: Goethe viewed science as:
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Answer: C – useful but limited
Question: Goethe’s idea to embrace the opposing forces present in life had a direct influence on:
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Answer: B – Jung
Question: According to Schopenhauer, the will to survive causes:
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Answer: C – an unending cycle of needs and need satisfaction
Question: According to Schopenhauer, when all of our needs are temporarily satisfied, we feel:
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Answer: A – bored
Question: According to Schopenhauer, _____ suffer the most.
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Answer: A – intelligent humans
Question: Schopenhauer believed that life is best viewed as:
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Answer: B – the postponement of death
Question: Schopenhauer believed that most people cling to life because:
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Answer: C – they fear death
Question: Schopenhauer anticipated Freud’s concept of _____ when he said that we could at least partially escape the irrational forces within us by immersing ourselves in such things as music, poetry, or art.
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Answer: D – sublimation
Question: Schopenhauer stated that we may repress undesirable thoughts into the:
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Answer: A – unconscious