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 In class we considered Plato’s story of the “Ring of Gyges.”  Gyges, who finds a magical ring which allows him to become invisible 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’s character, Glaucon asks is, “Why shouldn’t he do as he pleases?”  “Why should he care about morality?”    This approach to ethics would say that one’s actions should produce the MOST good for the MOST people.

Shortly after Martin and his wife ate filet mignon with béarnaise sauce, Martin fell ill with the flu. Classical conditioning occurred, and ________ became a conditioned stimulus for nausea.

The feeling of a needle piercing your skin is an act of __________, whereas your saying “Yowch! That hurts!” is an act of __________.

Based on the above graph, The Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) is a bowed-outward (concave-downward); this is because the opportunity cost of cell phones and coffee makers is  _____________.

Are you actively seeing patients?

Which of the following is not an argument that would support the learning model of addiction?

Sophia once found herself in a busy restaurant when she had a panic attack, brought on by stress she felt over recent health problems and deaths of her friends and loved ones. A few weeks later she experienced another attack, this time in a grocery store. Over time Sophia gradually reduced her contact with the outside world, fearful that an attack might strike at any moment and worried that she might find herself helpless, stricken, and embarrassed in a public place. Sophia’s initial troubles have developed into __________.

According to Ethics Unwrapped: Utilitarianism,  this theory has several limitations.  Which of the statements below is correct?

Which of the following emotions does not have a universal facial expression?

According to Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis, the part of personality that contains unconscious psychic energies related to sex and aggression is called the __________.