首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
医学
It is common to think that other animals are ruled by instinct whereas humans lost their instincts and ruled by reason, and that
It is common to think that other animals are ruled by instinct whereas humans lost their instincts and ruled by reason, and that
admin
2013-12-06
38
问题
It is common to think that other animals are ruled by instinct whereas humans lost their instincts and ruled by reason, and that this is why we are so much more flexibly intelligent than other animals. William James, in his book Principles of Psychology, took the opposite view. He argued that human behavior is more flexibly intelligent than that of other animals because we have more instincts than they do, not fewer. We tend to be blind to the existence of these instincts, however, precisely because they work so well—because they process information so effortlessly and automatically. They structure our thought so powerfully, he argued, that it can be difficult to imagine how things could be otherwise. As a result, we take normal behavior for granted. We do not realize that normal behavior needs to be explained at all. This instinct blindness makes the study of psychology difficult. To get past this problem, James suggested that we try to make the natural seem strange. It takes a mind debauched by learning to carry the process of making the natural seem strange, so far as to ask for the why of an instinctive human act.
In our view, William James was right about evolutionary psychology. Making the natural seem strange is unnatural—it requires the twisted outlook seen, for example, in Gary Larson cartoons. Yet it is a central part of the enterprise. Many psychologists avoid the study of natural competences, thinking that there is nothing there to be explained. As a result, social psychologists are disappointed unless they find a phenomenon that would surprise their grandmothers and cognitive psychologists spend more time studying how we solve problems we are bad at, like learning math or playing chess, than ones we are good at. But our natural competences—our abilities to see, to speak, to find someone beautiful, to reciprocate a favor, to fear disease, to fall in love, to initiate an attack, to experience moral outrage, to navigate a landscape, and myriad others—are possible only because there is a vast and heterogeneous array of complex computational machinery supporting and regulating these activities. This machinery works so well that we don’t even realize that it exists — we all suffer from instinct blindness. As a result, psychologists have neglected to study some of the most interesting machinery in the human mind.
William James believed that man is more flexibly intelligent than other animals because man is more______.
选项
A、adaptive
B、reasonable
C、instinctive
D、sophisticated
答案
C
解析
第一段中“It is common to think that…William James,in his book Principles ofPsychology,took the opposite view.”说的是人们通常认为动物受本能控制,人受理智控制,而William James持相反的观点。故C正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/XfU3777K
本试题收录于:
医学博士外语题库考研分类
0
医学博士外语
考研
相关试题推荐
Cultureshockmightbecalledanoccupationaldiseaseofpeoplewhohavebeensuddenlytransplantedabroad.Likemostailments,
A、Hewaswaitinginthewrongplace.B、Hewon’thavetowaitanylonger.C、Thewomanwasmistaken.D、Thewomanshouldasksomebo
Healwaysdidwellatschool______havingtodopart-timejobseverynowandthen.
A、Metabolismslowsdown.B、Musclemassincreases.C、Theweightislighter.D、Therateofburningcaloriesishigh.A文中说“Aroundt
A、Moderateamountsofallkindsoffoods.B、Moderateamountsofhighcaloriefood.C、Moderateamountsoflowcaloriefood.D、Mod
Theloversarrangedasecretrendezvous.
Weallhaveoffensivebreathatonetimeoranother.Inmostcases,offensivebreathemanatesfrombacteriainthemouth,althou
A、Moderateamountsofallkindsoffoods.B、Moderateamountsofhighcaloriefood.C、Moderateamountsoflowcaloriefood.D、Mod
A、Moderateamountsofallkindsoffoods.B、Moderateamountsofhighcaloriefood.C、Moderateamountsoflowcaloriefood.D、Mod
A、Nausea.B、Fever.C、Acold.D、Diarrhea.D从“Youaresufferingfromdiarrhea.”可知答案。
随机试题
"InonlysixdaysIlostsevenpoundsofweight.""Twofullinchesinthefirstthreedays!"Thesearethekindsofst
简述文学艺术类旅游资源的开发原则与开发措施。
丹痧的主要病机是
男,40岁。感冒后,下唇及唇周皮肤出现成簇的针头大小的小水疱,破溃后结痂,局部灼痒、疼痛。该患者患的疾病为
结构中含有吡啶基的药物为结构中含有噻唑基的药物为
A.红细胞膜上含A凝集原,血清中含抗A凝集素B.红细胞膜上含B凝集原,血清中含抗B凝集素C.红细胞膜上含A凝集原,血清中含抗B凝集素D.红细胞膜上含B凝集原,血清中含抗A凝集素E.红细胞膜上同时含有A和B两种凝集原,血清中无凝集素A型血为(
使用三因素分析法分析固定制造费用差异时,固定制造费用的效率差异反映()。
若函数y=与y=x—1的图像的交点坐标为(a,b),则的值为________.
下列不属于紧缩性货币政策的措施是()
(2016年多选47)下列行为中,构成侵犯商标权的有()。
最新回复
(
0
)