Decision Making
Definitions
Common Problems
Definitions Too
Principles and Theories
100
With this type of decision making, a person considers the consequences of their actions before making a decision...
What is consequentialism?
100
The use of individual self-interest is called...
What is egoism?
100
After the first step of decision making (defining the dilemma), the next step is to...
What is identify the ethical principles influencing the dilemma?
100
This subcategory of ethis defines what ethics is and the contributing factors that define ethical principles...
What is meta-ethics?
100
The three branches of ethics are meta-ethics, normative ethics and ...
What is applied ethics?
200
With a name derived from the word "duty", this form of decision making says that responsibility guides the determination for decisions...
What is deontology?
200
The fair is often substituted for this word - meaning helping a person to determine what is right and wrong...
What is justice?
200
The hardest part of ethics is ...
What is making a decision?
200
The subcategory of ethics that uses ethical concepts an dprinciples to reach an ethical decision is called...
What is applied ethics?
200
The nine different ethical theores include altruism, beneficence, consequentialism, deontology, egoism, least harm, respect for autonomy, utilitarianism and ...
What is least harm?
300
This type of decision making involves helping others but there is no individual sacrifice...
What is beneficence?
300
Concern for the welfare of others or an obligation to benefit others is called...
What is altruism?
300
The final step in the Potter box is to ...
What is review our loyalties?
300
This theory of ethical reasoning is best understood by the idea of teh path of least resistence...
What is the least harm theory?
300
In the Star Trek moving, Mr. Spok states that "____ clearly dictates that the need sof the many outweight the needs of the few"...
What is Logic?
400
This principle concentrates on the benefit of the person instead of others...
What is egosim?
400
The use of duty and rules to determine the situtational outcome is called....
What is deontology?
400
The Potter Box diagram includes definition, loyalties, identification and .....
What is guidance?
400
A decision making process that uses the outcome to determine whether something is right or wrong is called...
What is consequentialism?
400
The ethical principle of values is the core ethical concept for ...
What is utilitarianism?
500
Derived from the French word meaning other people, this decisionmaking concent comes from the belief that other people are more important than the individual...
What is altruism?
500
The concept of being able to make your own decisions and control your own destiny is called this...
What is autonomy?
500
The reason ethical dilemmas exist is because to or more ethical principles are ...
What is competing with each other?
500
A subcategory of ethics that defines how ethical decisions are made and the factors that contribute to ethical behavior is called...
What is normative ethics?
500
The application of principles to real-life situations is known as ...
What is applied ethics?