Quiz 2

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  people are not capable of seeing events as the result of randomness or coincidence

B  the evolution of a large brain was largely responsible for the development of the human mind

C  people know, or think they know, what is going on in another people’s minds 

D  children are born with “blank slates” and slowly develop a mind through observation and trial and error

A  Brain scans of people in deep meditation show a decreased activity in the parietal lobe of the brain, in an area responsible for giving us a sense of our orientation in space and time

B  All of these are correct. 

C  People suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy often report intense religious experiences as part of their attacks.

D  People who report having intense religious experiences often report having had brain trauma or brain injury in childhood.

A  Marxist approach

B  analytic approach        

C  functional approach

D  psychosocial approach 

A  Karl Marx

B  Sigmund Freud

C  Melford Spiro

D  Clifford Geertz 

A  psychosocial approach

B  cognitive approach

C  evolutionary approach

D  functional approach 

A  psychoanalytic approach

B  essentialist approach

C  evolutionary approach 

D  functional approach

A  a belief in spirit beings such as spirits and gods

B  an attitude of reverence and respect

C  belief in a general supernatural force

D  things that are above the natural and not subject to the laws of nature 

A  functional definition 

B  analytic definition       

C  essentialist definition

D  psychosocial definition

A  narrative dimension

B  social dimension         

C  institutional dimension 

D  ritual dimension

A  operant definition 

B  analytic definition

C  anthropological definition

D  functional definition