John Gibbs, Author of Moral Development and Reality, Experienced a Significant

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Multiple Choice

John Gibbs, author of Moral Development and Reality, experienced a significant moral dilemma as a child at

• A)home, where he saw his mother abused by his father.
• B)camp, where he saw a mildly retarded man tormented by campers.
• C)school, where he was pressured into picking on an overweight classmate.
• D)church, where he struggled to understand how good church-going people could say mean things about others.

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Definitions:

Specificity Theory

The proposal that different sensory qualities are signaled by different quality-specific neurons. This theory is correct in only a few cases (e.g., pain).

Sensation

The process by which sensory receptors and the nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from the environment.

Neurons

The basic working units of the brain, specialized cells designed to transmit information to other nerve cells, muscle, or gland cells.

Signal-Detection Experiment

A methodology in psychology that measures the ability to differentiate between information-bearing patterns and random patterns that distract from the information.