Which of the following are necessary for moral reasoning?
Which of the following are necessary for moral reasoning?
Question 1
What ethical stance should managers adopt when in a foreign country whose laws and culture are different than what they are used to?
A. Judge each case as it comes along.
B. Stick to the higher standards that are typical in their home country.
C. Always follow local practices and laws.
D. Follow their own personal code of ethics.
Question 2
What are the two stages within the first level (Preconventional level. of Kohlberg’s Three Levels of Moral Development?
A. punishment and obedience orientation; instrumental and relative orientation
B. interpersonal concordance orientation; law and order orientation
C. social contract orientation; universal moral principles orientation
D. microsocial norm orientation; interpersonal concordance orientation
Question 3
Why did Dr. P. Roy Vagelos, Merck’s head of research and development, decide to fund Ivermectin development to cure river blindness?
A. because of its large profit potential
B. because he decided it was the ethical choice
C. because it was both ethical and profitable
D. because governments would be interested in buying the drug
Question 4
Moral standards can be distinguished from non-moral standards using what characteristics?
A. They deal with matters that can seriously injure or benefit humans.
B. They are not established or changed by authoritative bodies.
C. They are based on impartial considerations.
D. None of the above
E. All the above
Question 5
What is an example of a microsocial norm?
A. prohibition of murder
B. prohibition of alcohol
C. prohibition of torture
D. prohibition of stealing
Question 6
Which of the following ethical issues did NOT arise as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
A. worker exploitation in factories
B. environmental damage
C. manipulation of the new financial markets
D. customer privacy issues
Question 7
What are the three elements of moral responsibility?
A. causality, forethought, knowledge
B. causality, knowledge, malice
C. causality, knowledge, freedom
D. freedom, knowledge, malice
Question 8
Which of the following is one definition of the term ethics?
A. the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group
B. the process of adhering to all laws and regulations
C. an alternate term for morality
D. a term describing why people are good or evil
Question 9
When are our values formed?
A. during childhood, and they do not change after that
B. during adolescence
C. once we are adults
D. all throughout our lives as we mature
Question 10
How do we stimulate moral development in ourselves?
A. experience difficult ethical decisions ourselves
B. engage in interaction and discussion of moral issues with people around us
C. read about how others have dealt with ethical decisions
D. avoid ethically dubious situations
Question 11
The ISCT framework describes two kinds of moral standards: hypernorms and microsocial norms. What does ISCT stand for?
A. Implicit Social Cognitive Transition
B. Integrative Social Contracts Theory
C. International Social Consensus Theory
D. Integral Society Cognition Theory