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During the late 1800s Hermann Ebbinghaus memorized long lists of nonsense syllables (such as gek, bof, or jeh) and tested his recall over varying time delays. According to his results, when did the greatest amount of forgetting occur?

An illustration from “The Dark Knight” was given in Ethics Unwrapped:Virtue Ethics.  In this illustration, Batman was given an opportunity to kill the joke.  Using this illustration and what you learned from this video clip, which of the following statements is TRUE about how the different theories of ethics would address Batman’s decision?

Phuong has heard many times about how, when she was 3 years old, she smashed both her hands into her chocolate birthday cake. It is a favorite family story, usually told whenever there is a gathering of relatives and especially at birthdays. One day Phuong is flipping through a scrapbook and finds photos of herself, clearly dated on her third birthday, with a strawberry cake in front of her. Photo after photo shows the cake being sliced and distributed, with nary a smudge on her hands nor any chocolate in sight. Which of the following phenomena best accounts for Phuong’s false memory of her third birthday?

One of the worldview questions discussed in the introduction to class is:  Where do we come from?  This question best represents which branch of philosophy?

Of the five approaches or theories of ethics which one asks questions such as “Who do I want to be?” and “Will my actions reinforce the kind of character I value in myself?”

Let’s look at another of Plato’s works–“The Ring of Gyges.”. Gyges, a shepherd  finds a magical ring which allows him to become invisible and chooses to use the ring to steal, seduce, abuse and kill.  Because he is invisible there are no “consequences” for his actions.  The question that Plato asks is, “Why shouldn’t he do as he pleases?”  “Why should he care about morality?”    Which approach to ethics would answer  this question by saying that his actions are a violation of the fundamental rights of other persons?  Thus, he cannot do as he pleases.

According to Mary Ainsworth’s classification system, which of these is not a form of attachment?

Have you ever participated in a course in the online format before?

In a person diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, one main “personality” interacts with the world on a regular basis, but other personalities called __________ are lurking in the recesses of consciousness.

The view that a change or re-defining of right/wrong in one area of society will lead to eventual moral  decay of the entire culture is called: