TOK: Knowledge & Belief Study Sheet
Name:___________________________________ Date of test:_______________
PERSON (2 points min.)
Charles Darwin
Gettier
Dretske
TERM (2 points min.)
Belief
Infallible/fallible
Evidence
Immanuel Kant
Steven Pinker
Justify/justification
Empirical Knowledge
Epsitemology
A prior knowledge
A postetiori knowledge
Analytic Beliefs
Synthetic apriori
Pragmatic
Internalists/Externalists &
JTB
Universal Acid
memes
Nature/Nurture debate
Behaviorists: Pavlov
Norms
Free will
3 Laws of Behavioural
Genetics
6 categories of behavioural
traits
Shared environment/unique
environment
Group socialization theory
Language
Williams Syndrome
Motherese
Second Darwinian
Revolution
Mental Maps
Human nature
epigenetics
Anchoring rule
Rule of typical things
BIG ITEM (4 points min.)
TOK Diagram
Gettier & JTB
Dreske & Relevant
Alternatives Theory
Kant & Knowledge
Correspondence Theory &
truth
Coherence Theory & truth
Pragmatic Theory & truth
Skepticism
The Great Chain of Being
Algorithmic Process & key
features
Cranes & Skyhooks
Epigenetics & human
nature
Epigenetics: problems with,
morality
Gardner article (The science
& politics of fear)
Example rule
Good bad rule
Exposure effect
Confirmation bias
Group polarization
TOK: PERCEPTION & EMOTION STUDY SHEET
Name: ______________________________ Date of test:_____________
PERSON (2 point min.)
Paul Maclean
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
Dr. V.S. Ramachandran
Dr. Richard Nibett
Edward de Bono
Dr. Paul Ekman (genetics &
emotions)
TERM (2 point min.)
Triune brain (& diagram)
Brain stem
Limbic system
Neuron (& diagram)
3 types of neurons
Synapse (& diagram)
Neurotransmitters
“Lock & Key”method
Central Nervous system
Peripheral Nervous system
Serotonin
“I smell burnt toast”
Motor Projection Area of
the brain
Somatosensory Projection
area
Mirror box illusion
Blind sight
Capras delusion
Rubber hand Illusion
Similarity
Proximity
Continuity
Closure
“Maintaining Perceptual
constancy”
Perceiving distance:
monocular cues, binocular
cues
Anthropormorphism
Moran’s Canon
BIG ISSUE (4 point min.)
Optical Illusions
Teenage Brain (article)
Second Brain
Sensory Profiles article
Right/Left brain
Ramachandran’s
observations & conclusions
Mirror Neurons
Proprioception
Synethesia
Gestalt
How culture molds habits of
thought (article)
Lateral thinking
Parallel thinking
Emotional Intelligence
“Our of your mind, not out
of your body” (article)
Turing Test for
consciousness
Binding
True Colors test
fMRI
Amygdala
Higher Emotions
TOK Math Study Sheet
Name: ___________________________ Day of test: _________________
Person (2 points min.)
Term (2 points min.)
Euclid
Axioms
Bernhard Riemann
N. I. Lobachevsky
Rules of Inference
Theorems
Fibonacci
Peano Postulates
Einstein
Deductive Reasoning
Godel
Lorenz
Inductive Reasoning
Elliptical geometry
Feigenbaum
Fibonacci Series
Golden Ration/Golden
Number
Speed of Light
Frame dragging
Black Holes
Electron Orbitals
Uncertainty principle
Copenhagen
Interpretation
Double slit experiment
Super positioning
Big Issue (4 points
min.)
Axioms: apriori
knowledge
Euclid’s Geometry
Non-Euclidian
geometry
Special//General
theories of Relativity
Gravity Probe
Experiment
Quantum Logic
Quantum computer
solves problem, without
running
Godel’s Incompletness
Theorem
Chaos Theory
Schrodinger’s cat
thought experiment
Butterfly Effect
Lorentz attractor
Bifurcation
Koch curve
fractal
Mandlebrot set
TOK Ethics Unit Study Sheet
Name:____________________________________ Date of test:
____________________
PERSON (2 points
TERMS (2 points min.)
BIG ISSUE (4 points min.)
minimum)
Sinbad et al
Universal Laws – some
Self Interest Theory: Ethical
possible eg.
Egoism
Harry Browne & Ethical
Categorical imperative
Criticisms of Ethical egoism
egoism
Ayn Rand & “The virtue of Kant: physical laws, moral Virtue ethics, issues of
selfishness”
laws
cultural relativism & ethical
objectivism
Aristotle & virtue ethics
Kant: Universal Law
Kant & Universal Law
theory
John Stuart Mill
Kant: The law of respecting Criticisms of Kantian ethics
others
Jeremy Bentham
“The greatest happiness of Utilitarian theory
the greatest number”
David Hume
Law of Diminishing
Bentham & Mill on
Marginal Returns (and
Utiliarianism
diagram)
E.O. Wilson
Trolley-ology
Problems/criticisms of
Utiliarianism
Social contract theory
Hume & Ethics
(Hobbes)
Scientific Ethics
X Phi = Experimental
Philosophy
TOK: Natural Sciences Study Sheet
Name: _____________________________Test date:
___________________
Person (2 points min.) Term (2 points min.)
Karl Popper
Basic Sci. Method (#1)
Thomas Kuhn
Paradigm
Imre Lakatos
Hardcore
Paul Feyerabend
Protective belt
Positive heuristic
Pseudoscience
Big Issue (4 points
min.)
Principle of Falsification
(sci. method #2)
Falsification:
advantages/problems
Scientific Revolutions
(sci. method #3)
Research Programs (sci.
method #4)
Anything goes – Against
Method, 1975
Limits of Science –
article’s main points
TOK: Language Unit
Name:
Test Date:
____________________________
Person (2 points min.)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Martin Heidegger
George Orwell
Nietzsche
Bertrand Russell
Vienna Circle
Term/Word (2 points
min.)
Communication Loop
Language as transactional
communication
Language as transactionalj
comm.
Language as expressive
comm.
Tractacus
Wittgenstein’s “language
games”
Emotive Words
Lang. as Social Comm
Lang. as Comm with self
Phenomenology
Big Issue (4 points min.)
3 features of language
Functions of Language (in
general)
Swear words
Bewitchment of Language
(in general)
Hermeneutics & examples
Structuralism (or semiotics)
Categories & Classification
Nietzsche and your
opinions of him
Logical Positivism &
example
Being & Time: Husserl
Will and Representation
(Schop)
Language uses symbols
Meaning of Words
“Game” multiple meanings
Language creates reality
Newspeak
Language infers & judges
Language Classifies
Language changes
Ubermensch
Will to Power
Eternal Return
Linguistic Philosophy
Picture Theory of Meaning:
Logical Form
“Later Wittgenstein”:
language as tool
Method as used by
Heidegger
Heidegger & existence
For Duncan’s classes, only study what we have learned:
TOK: LOGIC AND REASON STUDY SHEET
Name: _________________________________________ Date of Test:
__________________
Person (2 points min.)
Aristotle – logic, his
incorrect assumption
Stoics – logic
Term (2 points min.)
Analytic philosophy
Gottlob Frege
Russell’s paradox
Bertrand Russell
Formalism
Vienna Circle
Principia Mathematica
Continental school
“Is” “disgrace to the human
race”
“and”
Big Issue (4 points min.)
3 informal fallacies:
defined/examples
Deductive logic: explained,
example, problems with
model
Symbolic logic: explained,
example, problems with
model
Inductive Logic: explained,
example, problems with
model
Matrix Logic: explained,
example, problems with
model
Fuzzy Logic: defined,
advantages, four step
process, uses of,
strengths/weaknesses
Fuzzy Logic vs. Boolean
Paradox
Cretan paradox
Barber paradox
“arithmetic trembles”
Russell’s set
Cantor’s theorem
Hempel’s paradox
Syllogism
Venn Diagram
Logic
Fuzzy logic: applications:
camcorders, belief systems,
temperature, etc.
Venn Diagram, various
examples