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Thinking About Disciplinary Perspectives MCQ

Dualists believe that knowledge is relative.

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Correct Answer: False

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The dualist and relativist positions are simplistic epistemic positions because they rest on the assumption you already “know what is true” about a given subject.

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Correct Answer: True

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Multiplicity refers to when you experience several plausible yet contradictory explanations of the same phenomenon as opposed to one simple, clear-cut, unambiguous explanation.

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Correct Answer: True

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Political science is relevant to the issues of human cloning because it examines the role of the federal government and particular agencies.

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Correct Answer: False

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Literature searches are not important in interdisciplinary work as they are discipline-specific.

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Correct Answer: False

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Because different disciplines will have relevant perspectives on complex problems and these perspectives will reflect the discipline’s perspective, ______.

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Correct Answer: It is important to consider the perspectives of the different disciplines to ensure you have considered how it illumines different parts of the problem

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Dualists believe that knowledge ______.

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Correct Answer: Is objective, certain, and absolute

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If you wanted to study the homeless population in a particular community, you should ______.

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Correct Answer: Make sure that the disciplines you choose cover all the aspects of the problem and how they interact with other aspects

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When choosing disciplines to carry out interdisciplinary research on a particular problem, you should consider ______.

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Correct Answer: The disciplines that study phenomena connected with the chosen complex problem

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To interrogate in an interdisciplinary sense means to ______.

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Correct Answer: Practice critical pluralism by asking critical and probing questions of each relevant discipline

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Sophisticated epistemic position sees multiple and conflicting perspectives as ___________ of the subject under study.

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Correct Answer: Partial understanding

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Simplistic epistemic positions include

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Correct Answer: Both

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Simplistic epistemic positions rest on the assumption the one already “knows what is true” about a given subject.

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Correct Answer: True

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Relativism is belief that there is no such thing as objective knowledge

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Correct Answer: True

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Perceptual apparatus is a discipline’s denying elements

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Correct Answer: False

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Multiplicity is the ability to work effectively with several _______ yet contradictory explanations of the same phenomenon as opposed to one simple, clear-cut, unambiguous explanation.

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Correct Answer: Plausible

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Asking critical and probing questions of each relevant discipline is to

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Correct Answer: Interrogate in an interdisciplinary sense

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Basic knowledge about each potentially relevant discipline is known as interdisciplinary breadth

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Correct Answer: True

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Epistemic position is understanding

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Correct Answer: Both

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Dualism is a belief that knowledge is

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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According to critical pluralism knowledge is

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Correct Answer: Objective

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