Among the First to Struggle with How the Mind Works

question 35

Multiple Choice

Among the first to struggle with how the mind works were the:

• A)Greek philosophers.
• B)dualists led by Descartes.
• C)18th-century phrenologists.
• D)18th-century German physiologists.

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Definitions:

Semantic Level

Pertaining to the meaning of words and language, especially the relationship between signifiers and what they signify or represent.

Case Markers

Grammatical markers that indicate the role of a noun, pronoun, or adjective in a sentence, such as subject, object, or possessive.

Semantic Role

The part that each phrase plays in the “who did what to whom” drama described by a sentence. One word takes the role of being the cause of the action, another, its effect, and so on.

Predicate

The part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject (e.g., 'ran' in 'the dog ran').