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Thomistic psychology

the psychological principles found in the writings of Thomas Aquinas and revived in the early 20th century by a number of Roman Catholic thinkers. Aquinas emphasized Aristotelian logic, the compatibility of reason with faith, human free will, and the knowledge of God as ultimate happiness. See also Scholasticism.

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disarranged-sentence test

disarranged-sentence test

a test or test item whose objective is to put a scrambled sentence in proper order. For example, the individual being tested could be required to reorder “Boy town the to went bustling the” to read “The boy went to the bustling town.”