WorksheetsETHICS FINAL EXAMS
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
When making an ethical decision in everyday life, which of the following provides the most useful guideline?
Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you
don't cry over spilled milk
consider your own wants and needs above those of others
As you sow so shall you reap
Which is most likely the best solution to an ethical problem?
the option that benefits you the most
the option that benefits the most people
the option that punishes bad people severely
the option that benefits the people you like the most
When might stealing a loaf of bread be ethically justifiable?
when the bread tastes very good
when the bread is overpriced
when the person selling the bread is mean
when people will starve to death if they don't get the bread
Most professions have their own sets of ethics. What might be in the code of ethics followed by high school teachers?
a. Always give students good grades so they don't get flunked
b. Don't play favorites with the students in your class
c. Don't speak to students if you see them outside of class
d. Grade all your students harshly
What is meant by morality?
a. The extent to which an action is right or wrong
b. The study of the existence of God
c. A way of grouping people according to their family origin
d. None of the above
What is ethics?
a. Grouping people according to their race
b. A branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles
c. The study of God's existence
d. A guiding principle
Which of the following ethical precepts can be used in media?
a. The Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
b. The Golden Mean: finding a middle way is better than an extreme.
c. The categorical imperative: rules or laws should only be used that would apply to everyone at all times.
d. All of the above can be used.
Utilitarianism is an approach to ethics that means
a. Whatever does the most good for the most number of people is best.
b. Fairness is the fundamental aspect of ethical conduct and people in a dispute should look at the situation outside of their own vested interests in the outcome to decide what is right.
c. Journalists often face conflicts among ethical principles in the course of their work and must often make difficult decisions.
d. Not all ethical precepts can be applied in all situations, but they do provide useful guidelines for media professionals in their behavior.
The company’s policy which is based on the philosophy of the utmost good for the greatest number of people is covered under the?
a. Utilitarian approach
b. Approach based on rights
c. Approach based on justice
d. None of the above
According to the moral concept, a worker is most likely to behave ethically when?
a. A manager observes his/her behavior
b. The worker has intense moral
c. The consequences of an act are minor
d. The consequences of an act are substantial
It stands at the level of theory tries to find general principles that will build our morality?
a. Morality
b. Ethics
c. Axiology
d. Valuation
Tries to apply the specific rules done by the ethics to a great number of situations
a. Ethics
b. Morality
c. Axiology
d. Principle of the greatest number
Investigates where our ethical principles come from, and what they mean.
a. Metaethics
b. Normative ethics
c. Applied ethics
d. Metaphysics
It is collective, a community thing. It derives from the rules of a social group.
a. Ethics
b. Morality
c. Axiology
d. Collectivity
Takes on a more practical task, which is to arrive at moral standards that regulate right and wrong conduct.
a. Metaethics
b. Normative ethics
c. Applied ethics
d. Norms
Takes on a more practical task, which is to arrive at moral standards that regulate right and wrong conduct.
a. Ethics
b. Morality
c. Axiology
d. Good Manner and Right Conduct
Values are independent of their depositaries, that is, they are separated from individual experience.
a. Subjectivity
b. Objectivism
c. moral valuation
d. subjective value
Things are not valuable in themselves; it is the human being who creates his value.
a. Subjectivity
b. Objectivism
c. valuation
d. sentimental value
What refers to ethics?
a. Methodical and systematic reflection of our behavior, values, virtues
b. Determines if the acts are good or bad
c. It is the present thought or the reflexive part of our humanity
d. Practice and concrete experience of these values, virtues, principles.
What refers to Morality?
a. Methodical and systematic reflection of our behavior, values, virtues
b. Determines if the acts are good or bad
c. it questions why the acts are good or bad
d. A habitual Acts
Cultural relativism regards
a. all cultural traditions as having some reason behind them
b. everything another culture doe to be correct
c. that some cultural ideas are intrinsically better than others
d. that some cultural ideas are intrinsically worse than others
It is an irrefutable theory because whatever one might say, there is a self-serving motive at the root of everything.
a. Cultural relativism
b. Subjectivism
c. Psychological egoism
d. Valuation
It talks about what is acceptable and unacceptable in human behavior.
a. Moral
b. Ethics
c. Value
d. Dilemma
A patient comes into the hospital that has been in a car accident and sustained serious injuries. If untreated, the patient will surely die; however, the injuries are treatable and the patient can be saved. A doctor, who is to operate, notices that the patient is an organ donor. There are five other people in the hospital who need organs, will die without the organs, and have no opportunity to receive such organs (the underlying assumption is that they are all matches for the organs of the patient who just came in). The doctor chose to leave the patient to die. This is an example of _______________ theory.
a. Divine Command Theory
b. Ethical Relativism
c. Utilitarianism
d. Cultural Relativism
Aristotle believed that the desired goal of every human action is
a. pleasure
b. happiness
c. self-interest
d. sympathy
Which of the following is ethical egoism?
a. Making decisions to benefit you
b. Making decisions to benefit others
c. Making the decision to benefit the most number of people
d. By pursuing the interest of my parents for myself
Who determines right and wrong according to moral subjectivism?
a. Culture
b. The subject of action
c. Reason
d. God
A medieval thinker and said to be the father of the natural law theory.
a. Aristotle
b. Plato
c. Thomas Aquinas
d. Socrates
A sense of right and wrong that is in us that we are obliged to obey.
a. Senses
b. Conscience
c. Ethics
d. Feeling
The ability to take charge of one’s own learning.
a. Autonomy
b. Heteronomy
c. Universalizability
d. Duty
Which of the following persons can legally give informed consent?
a) Mike, age 21, who needs repair of a gunshot wound
b) Susie, age 17, need stitches
c) Sabrina, age 19, was driving while intoxicated and had a car wreck
d) Adam, age 10, needs an immunization against tetanus
What does the government enact to keep society running smoothly?
a) laws
b) codes of ethics
c) morals
d) torts
Which of the following is usually considered unethical?
a) punching someone you are angry with
b) fighting someone in a boxing match
c) punching a robber who's robbing an old woman
d) punching a wall when you are angry
A ___________ is a difficult situation in which you have to choose between alternatives.
a) Dilemma
b) Questions
c) Choices
d) Justify
The goal of ethics according to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
a) Happiness
b) Love
c) Faith
d) Hope
