UNIVERSITY OF SAN JOSE - RECOLETOS

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

GEN ED: UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

PRELIM EXAMINATION
Second Semester AY 2019 - 2020

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GENERAL INSTRUCTION:
1. ERASURES, SUPERIMPOSITIONS, AND ALTERATIONS ARE STRICTLY NOT ALLOWED, DOING
SO WIL INVALIDATE YOUR ANSWER.
2. Answers must be written in CAPITAL LETTERS
3. Pencils and using of scratch paper is absolutely not allowed

I. Common phrases and quotes of the different philosophers.

Matching Type: Match column A with column B
COLUMN A COLUMN B
1. “The way to God was to look into oneself.” A. Descartes
2. “The brain is the engine of reason and seat for the soul.” B. Kant
3. “Know thyself.” C. St. Augustine
4. “We know not through our intellect but through our experience.” D. Ponty
5. “I think therefore I am.” E. Churchland
6. Self is transcendental F. Ryle
7. “The very perfection of a man is consummated --- when he finds G. Socrates
out his imperfections.” H. Plato
8. “There is only one good – knowledge and one evil --- ignorance.” I. Locke
9. “If the world is not perfect, it is not because of God or the ideals, J. Hume
but because the raw materials were not perfect.” K. Freud
10. “It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it
well.”
11. Cogito Ergo Sum
12. Tabula Rasa
13. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

II. Philosophical perspectives

1. He rejects Descartes innate ideas and believes that ideas are representations or perceptions.
A. Locke B. Kant C. Hume D. Ponty
2. A philosopher who argues that skeptics have no basis for claiming to know that there is no knowledge.
A. Kant B. St. Augustine C. Plato D. Socrates
3. The self emerges not as something that is theoretically founded, but as data-innervated, since the self cannot be a product
of imagination and opinions but of empirical observation.
A. Locke B. Ryle C. Churchland D. Ponty
4. The self emerges as one strives to address unmet needs aanad find pleasurable experiences to gratify one’s aspirations and
instincts.
A. Churchland B. Freud C. Socrates D. Descartes
5. He believed moral excellence was a divine legacy than parental nurturing.
A. Plato B. Socrates C. Ryle D. Ponty
6. The self emerges when humans possess certain virtues and leads a virtuous life and such life is spent in the search of
goodness to be better and happier.
A. Plato B. Socrates C. Ryle D. Ponty
7. The self emerges as one perceives the world and his existence in the world, as he looks at the world through one’s body
which is involved in one’s existence.
A. Ryle B. Ponty C. Hume D. Plato
8. The self emerges as a crystallized knowledge of one’s self anad others based on one’s recurring observations.
A. Kant B. Hume C. Ponty D. Ryle
9. The self emerges as human behaviors unfold as it reflects one’s innate self-conception.
A. Freud B. Ryle C. Churchland D. Kant
10. His famous adage was “My heart is restless until it rest in Thee.”
A. Socrates B. Plato C. St. Augustine D. Ponty
11. Borrowing from Aristotle’s analogy of a tablet on which nothing is yet written, his lasting idea about knowledge is that it is
derived from experience and experience alone.
A. Rene Descartes B. John Locke C. Immanuel Kant D. Plato
12. Which information is not true about Rene Descartes.
A. He belongs to the rationalism camp.
B. He believes that that the mind and body exist as separate entities.
C. He showed how the mechanisms of the body may be understood in the same way as the mechanisms that underlie the
physical machinery.
D. He strongly believes in the power of experience.

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