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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 4, Falsifiability.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of rule do positivists and reductionists adhere to, according to Popper?
(a) Logical rules.
(b) Rules of Psychology.
(c) Dogmatic rules.
(d) Non-logical rules.

3. What does Popper say methodological rules are?
(a) Irrelevant.
(b) Conventions.
(c) Keys to understanding.
(d) Testable.

4. How does logic serve in determining if a statement is testable?
(a) It creates understanding.
(b) It creates provability.
(c) It does nothing.
(d) It sets up criteria.

5. What type of reasoning, according to Popper, is not rational?
(a) Inductive.
(b) Testable.
(c) Scientific.
(d) Deductive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of statements are scientific theories?

2. What is one characteristic of the relationship between theory and classes of statements that must be present?

3. How are theories used to explain the world?

4. What is the theory of theories?

5. What depends on both universal and singular statements?

(see the answer key)

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