Descartes Argued That Human Beings Are Born with Ideas of the Three

question 6

Multiple Choice

Descartes argued that human beings are born with ideas of the three fundamental kinds of things in the universe:

• A) sense perception, ideas and concepts.
• B) God, minds and material bodies.
• C) understanding, sense perception and material bodies.
• D) God, material bodies and properties of material bodies.

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Definitions:

Signal Detection

A technique used to identify the presence or absence of a stimulus amidst background noise.

Feature Detection

The process by which the brain identifies specific elements or patterns, such as lines or edges, in a visual stimulus.

Perceptual Set

A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another, influenced by expectations, emotions, culture, and past experiences.

Top-Down Processing

Top-down processing is a cognitive process in which our expectations or previous knowledge guide the interpretation of sensory information.