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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 6, Degrees of Testability.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Statements that are not testable serve what purpose?
(a) Validate previous experience.
(b) They serve no purpose.
(c) Suggest a problem.
(d) Judge science.

2. What does Popper suggest is not psychological?
(a) Existentialism.
(b) Observability.
(c) Objectivism.
(d) Subjectivism.

3. What is used to capture and explain the world?
(a) Logical statements.
(b) Laws of nature.
(c) Theories.
(d) Scientific data.

4. What is the most significant factor when selecting a theory?
(a) Its universality.
(b) The understandability.
(c) The degree of testability.
(d) Previous research.

5. What should guide the methods of testing scientific statements?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Physics.
(c) Logic.
(d) Epistemology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason Popper rejects psychologism?

2. What does Popper fear philosophers will think about methodological investigations?

3. What can observation do for science?

4. What has a limited utility in comparing falsifiers?

5. What is directly linked to falsification?

(see the answer key)

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