Analyzing an Ethical Problem Flashcards

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What does FISH SEDER stand for?

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Facts, Issues, Stake Holders, Harms,

Solutions, Evaluation, Decision, Explain, Reflect

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What is part one of FISH SEDER

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Data Collection

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What is part two of FISH SEDER

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Analysis of Data

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our ethical behavior is constrained by cognitive, psychological, emotional, and environmental limits that impede our ability to act rationally.

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Boundedly ethical

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cognitive biases and shortcuts

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heuristics

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series of behaviors, actions, and consequences that become routine or expected in a particular situation or environment.

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scripts

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what is framing?

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Framing a problem or decision according to one particular dimension can lead individuals to ignore other important dimensions or values

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what bias of ethical fading is known as the “slippery slope?”

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incrementalism

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what is justifying unethical behavior

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self-deception

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what is self-serving bias?

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to blame external factors for our behavior as opposed to internal factors

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what is locus of control?

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how one views their relationship with their environment

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Often associated with children, at this level a person tends to focus on ethics only to the extent that it impacts their immediate pleasure or happiness.

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Pre-conventional level

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which stage of the pre-conventional level is a person makes ethical choices solely to avoid punishment

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stage 1

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which stage focuses not only on the punishment that will result, but also looks to the rewards a person receives

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stage 2

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most adolescents and adults achieve. At this level, a person internalizes moral issues and can think about ethics more abstractly

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Conventional Level

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which stage does a person look to their immediate family and friend group for acceptance and validation

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stage 3

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which stage is when a person sees beyond their immediate peer group and look to the broader rules of society and understand that these rules are beneficial

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stage 4

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characterized by those who don’t just follow the laws in place, but in some cases supersede the law, often creating new paradigms of ethical decision making

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Post-Conventional Level

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which stage represents those people who understand that laws play a role in society but are willing to break the law if it is seen as morally lacking or wrong

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stage 5

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which stage describes a person would no longer be concerned with current systems of rules but would instead seek to change the paradigms of ethical understanding to create whole new types of universal ethics for all people

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stage 6

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occurs when a person is confronted with something that does not fit into or coincide with their previously held understanding of the world

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Cognitive dissonance

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who was Kohlberg?

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came up with the 3 levels of moral development

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who was Carol Gilligan

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argues that ethics are not solely a function of justice. Instead, she contends the narrative should be about relationships and community.

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The theory explains that people will use six different mechanisms to disengage their internal morality so that they can justify and assuage their guilt

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Selective moral disengagement

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means of making their conduct seem less blameworthy… military action or warfare, moral justification relies on justifying violent and often atrocious behavior behind the veil of working toward some higher or more noble good.

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Moral Justification

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the language that makes harmful conduct respectable and reduces personal responsibility for it

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euphemistic language

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when a person compares their action to something far more heinous

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advantageous comparison

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the perpetrator has no illusion about the immorality of the action, but they claim an abdication of their moral judgment in favor of some authority figure… nazi example

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Displacement of responsibility

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In this case, instead of an authority figure, the actor is claiming that the moral action was not their responsibility.

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Diffusion of responsibility

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being further removed from the consequences of decisions

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Disregard of consequences