UPDATED BEHV 5613 MIDTERM EXAM
WITH SOLUTIONS 2025-2026
Care Based Thinking - answer--Golden rule
-Imagine how you would feel if you were the recipient
of your actions.
-Do what you want others to do to you.
-Putting ourselves in another's shoes.
Criterion of reversibility
"Great Danger" of Ordinary People - answer-At a
critical moment, we may not realize we are walking
into moral temptation.
3 Ways We Typically Think Wrong - answer--Violation
of law
-Departure from truth
-Deviation from moral rectitude
,"Good" People Definition - answer--They seem to
struggle over issues that some people might not even
recognize as problems.
-They are aware of a sense of vision.
-They seem to have a deep core of ethical values.
"Tough" Choices Definition - answer--They require us
to consider our deepest values.
-They contrast two possibilities that both could be
considered right.
Common Paradigms to Categorize Dilemmas - answer-
-Truth vs. loyalty
-Short term vs. long term
-Justice vs. mercy
-Individual vs. community
How do the paradigms help us make difficult choices? -
answer--It helps us separate right vs. right issues from
right vs. wrong issues.
,-It helps us to see past the unnecessary details and
into the core issues.
-Reducing dilemmas into common patterns helps us to
see the similarity with other problems and how it is a
workable problem.
Principles to View Ethical Dilemmas (3 principles for
resolving dilemmas) - answer--Ends based thinking
-Rule based thinking
-Care based thinking
Ends Based Thinking - answer--Utilitarianism
-Do what leads to the greatest good for the greatest
number.
-Consequentialism
-Requires one to predict outcomes and consider the
consequences
-Teleological philosophy
-Do what's best for the greatest number of people.
-Right and wrong can be assessed by examining
consequences.
, Rule Based Thinking - answer--Kant
-Follow the principle that you want everyone else to
follow.
-Deontological
-Stick to your principles, despite the consequences.
-Follow your highest sense of principle.
-I ought never to act except in a way that I can also will
that my maxim should become universal law.
-Act on our highest sense of inner concience
-Our actions conform to certain large patterns which
can be converted into universal principles of action.
Violation of Law - answer-We don't know the law and
its applications or we willingly choose to violate the
law.
Departure From Truth - answer-A lack of
correspondence what is said and what actually
happened.
WITH SOLUTIONS 2025-2026
Care Based Thinking - answer--Golden rule
-Imagine how you would feel if you were the recipient
of your actions.
-Do what you want others to do to you.
-Putting ourselves in another's shoes.
Criterion of reversibility
"Great Danger" of Ordinary People - answer-At a
critical moment, we may not realize we are walking
into moral temptation.
3 Ways We Typically Think Wrong - answer--Violation
of law
-Departure from truth
-Deviation from moral rectitude
,"Good" People Definition - answer--They seem to
struggle over issues that some people might not even
recognize as problems.
-They are aware of a sense of vision.
-They seem to have a deep core of ethical values.
"Tough" Choices Definition - answer--They require us
to consider our deepest values.
-They contrast two possibilities that both could be
considered right.
Common Paradigms to Categorize Dilemmas - answer-
-Truth vs. loyalty
-Short term vs. long term
-Justice vs. mercy
-Individual vs. community
How do the paradigms help us make difficult choices? -
answer--It helps us separate right vs. right issues from
right vs. wrong issues.
,-It helps us to see past the unnecessary details and
into the core issues.
-Reducing dilemmas into common patterns helps us to
see the similarity with other problems and how it is a
workable problem.
Principles to View Ethical Dilemmas (3 principles for
resolving dilemmas) - answer--Ends based thinking
-Rule based thinking
-Care based thinking
Ends Based Thinking - answer--Utilitarianism
-Do what leads to the greatest good for the greatest
number.
-Consequentialism
-Requires one to predict outcomes and consider the
consequences
-Teleological philosophy
-Do what's best for the greatest number of people.
-Right and wrong can be assessed by examining
consequences.
, Rule Based Thinking - answer--Kant
-Follow the principle that you want everyone else to
follow.
-Deontological
-Stick to your principles, despite the consequences.
-Follow your highest sense of principle.
-I ought never to act except in a way that I can also will
that my maxim should become universal law.
-Act on our highest sense of inner concience
-Our actions conform to certain large patterns which
can be converted into universal principles of action.
Violation of Law - answer-We don't know the law and
its applications or we willingly choose to violate the
law.
Departure From Truth - answer-A lack of
correspondence what is said and what actually
happened.
