Examples Such as the Abuses That Occurred at the Abu

question 66

Multiple Choice

Examples such as the abuses that occurred at the Abu Ghraib prison and in Somalia by U.S.and Canadian soldiers (respectively) demonstrate that

• A)all soldiers have the capacity to engage in evil behaviour.
• B)evil situations can produce evil behaviour.
• C)the moral code of the military is corrupt.
• D)obedience to authority never a good thing.

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Definitions:

Misattribution

The incorrect assignment of the source, cause, or authorship of a memory, feeling, or attribution.

Retrograde Amnesia

A loss of memory-access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before an injury or the onset of a disease.

Anterograde Amnesia

The loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia, leaving the person unable to recall the recent past.

Working Memory

A cognitive system responsible for temporarily holding information available for processing and decision making.