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Introduction of Interdisciplinary Studies MCQ

Critical interdisciplinarity questions disciplinary assumptions and ideological underpinnings.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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The interdisciplinarian is trained to recognize disciplinary perspectives and can readily detect how disciplinary assumptions can skew understanding.

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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Multidisciplinarity is the placing side by side of insights from two or more disciplines without attempting to integrate them.

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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In the early 1900s, interdisciplinarity began to acquire academic legitimacy.

True

False

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Correct Answer: False

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Scholarly contributions to the clear understanding of a complex problem, object, or text are called theories.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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When a problem is simple or multifaceted but not complex, this approach should suffice ______.

Multidisciplinary

Interdisciplinary

Transdisciplinary

Disciplinary

Answer

Correct Answer: Multidisciplinary

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The underlying premise of instrumental interdisciplinary studies is that ______.

The disciplines are an obstacle to the progress of knowledge

The disciplines should be replaced by multidisciplinary approaches

The disciplines should be replaced by interdisciplinary approaches

The disciplines are themselves the necessary foundation of the interdisciplinary enterprise

Answer

Correct Answer: The disciplines are themselves the necessary foundation of the interdisciplinary enterprise

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The cooperation of academics, stakeholders, and practitioners to solve complex problems of common interest with the goal of resolving them by designing and implementing public policy is called ______.

Multidisciplinarity

Transdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinarity

Disciplinarity

Answer

Correct Answer: Transdisciplinarity

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The product of interdisciplinary studies is ______.

Multidisciplinarity

Transdisciplinarity

The right answer

A more comprehensive understanding of a problem

Answer

Correct Answer: A more comprehensive understanding of a problem

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Scholarly contributions to the clear understanding of a complex problem, object, or text are called ______.

Defining elements

Theories

Insights

Hypotheses

Answer

Correct Answer: Insights

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Transdisciplinarity is the cooperation of __________ to solve a common complex societal or environmental problem of common interest with the goal of resolving it by designing and implementing public policy.

Academics

Stakeholders

Practitioners

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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The placing side by side of insights from two or more disciplines without attempting to integrate them is known as

Transdisciplinarity

Multidisciplinarity

Perspective taking

Interdisciplinarity

Answer

Correct Answer: Multidisciplinarity

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Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase, a story, or a picture is _________ to the idea that you are trying to communicate.

Likened

Linked

All of these

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Correct Answer: Likened

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Interdisciplinarity is a term used for interdisciplinary studies

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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Instrumental interdisciplinarity is a pragmatic conception of interdisciplinarity that focuses on ______________ in response to the demands of society.

Research

Borrowing

Practical problem solving

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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Insights are found in all of the following except

Papers delivered at scholarly conferences

Published books

Wikipedia

Published articles

Answer

Correct Answer: Wikipedia

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Discipline is a branch of learning

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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Disciplinary reductionism is changing

Complex to simple

Simple to complex

Fundamental to complex

Simple to fundamental

Answer

Correct Answer: Complex to simple

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The system of knowledge specialties called disciplines is known as

Disciplinarity

Insights

Metaphor

Borrowing

Answer

Correct Answer: Disciplinarity

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Critical reflection is the process of __________ the activity (cognitive or physical) that you are engaged in.

Analyzing

Questioning

Reconsidering

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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Critical interdisciplinarity Questions

Disciplinary assumptions

Ideological underpinnings

Both

None

Answer

Correct Answer: Both

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Careful analysis of a text that begins with attending to individual words, sentence structure, and the order in which sentences and ideas unfold is known as

Contextualization

Close reading

Critical reflection

Disciplinary reductionism

Answer

Correct Answer: Close reading

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Capacity is the __________ ability to think, perceive, analyze, create, and solve problems.

Cognitive

Intellectual

Any of the above

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Any of the above

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