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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens if there is on falsifiable information?
(a) Learning occurs.
(b) Learning does not occur.
(c) Conventionalism is proven.
(d) Experiments fail.

2. What does Popper fear philosophers will think about methodological investigations?
(a) There is no substance in them.
(b) They do not work.
(c) They do not belong to philosophy.
(d) They contradict years of thought.

3. What depends on both universal and singular statements?
(a) Causality.
(b) Logical factors.
(c) Correlations.
(d) Abstract thought.

4. What does Popper use to check his investigations?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Testability.
(c) Universal statements.
(d) Assumptions.

5. What type of hypotheses does Popper warn against?
(a) Auxiliary hypotheses.
(b) Initial hypotheses.
(c) Proven hypotheses.
(d) Universal hypotheses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must be maintained in at each level of the experimental process?

2. According to conventionalists, what will yields more complete results of science?

3. What happens when theories are refined?

4. What is the reproducible effect which refutes a theory?

5. What does Popper say methodological rules are?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Popper view positivism as narrow, limited, and misguided?

2. What is the distinction between universal statements and singular statements?

3. How do methodological rules differ from logical or deductive rules?

4. Why does Popper discredit the conventionalist view of science?

5. What must an experimenter do in order to test a theory?

6. Popper states that scientific statements cannot be conclusively disproved. If this is the case what can be determined with these statements?

7. What is the falsification of a statement?

8. What type of questions or thoughts does Popper state are irrelevant to scientific knowledge?

9. What must be assumed to justify a universal statement?

10. What does Popper say about the blind acceptance of auxiliary hypothesis?

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