PSYC 420 Quiz Metaphysics and Anthropology

PSYC 420 Quiz Metaphysics and Anthropology

1. _______ can be viewed as a position that cannot be proved but that can be defended.
2. What does Entwistle say is a main struggle when it comes to understanding human beings?
3. Every worldview attempts to answer basic metaphysical questions about the world.
4. Theology is based on the premises that the world is an orderly place in which observation can lead to awareness of the regularities of the phenomena.
5. Classical education has severed the development of character from the attainment of knowledge.
6. Naturalism and supernaturalism lead to different understandings of the nature of the world and of the ultimate nature of truth, goodness, and beauty.
7. The nature of the origin of the world and the nature of source of ethical values and of beauty would be considered issues under what area of study?
8. What is the difference between how Christianity and psychology look at human nature?
9. How does the cosmological principle differ from what the human race has believed for the majority of its history?
10. According to Entwistle, both psychologists and theologians develop theories from
11. What is part of an integrative worldview?
12. What is an example of an intrapsychic phenomenon?
13. What insight does Genesis provide about humans and human nature?
14. In the Christian view, there is a supernatural world in addition to a natural world.
15. Both Christian theology and secular psychology do not proceed from their own foundational assumptions.
16. What is true of the relationship between miracles and natural law?
17. From which work are Shakespeare’s lines are often misunderstood?
18. If we accept that Christian proposition that the physical world is a created realm. We must then ask about the nature of
19. Naturalists believe that the material world exists, but that it came into existence at some point when God created it.
20. According to the text, a Christian view of humanity begins with _____ and ______.
21. Entwistle talks about what the systematic theologian Wayne Grudem had to say about the effects of the Fall. Which of the following does Grudem NOT say?
22. The American eugenics movement arose from Social Darwinism. This movement sought to accomplish what goal?
23. Supernaturalists believe that nothing other than the material world exists.
24. A worldview can survive without an ethical system with a set of guidelines for which behaviors are acceptable and which are not.
25. Scientists are able to avoid making any metaphysical assumptions.
26. The a priori rejection of supernatural explanations by atheistic materialists can only proceed on provable metaphysical grounds.
27. Character is shaped through what, according to Aristotle?
28. Which of the following is not identified as a goal of psychology?
29. According to Entwistle, how do Christians view supernatural and natural explanations of phenomena?
30. Niebuhr argued that the limitations of our creatureliness should be understood as part of the fall of man.