Quiz 2 Wordbank

Question 1

Assault

Answer 1

Any willful attempt or threat to inflict injury on the person of another, when coupled with the apparent present ability to do so, and any intention display of force such as would give the victim reason to fear or expect immediate bodily harm

Question 2

Battery

Answer 2

Any unlawful touching of another that is without justification or excuse

Question 3

False imprisonment

Answer 3

Conscious restraint of the freedom of a person without proper authorization, privilege, or consent

Question 4

Implied consent

Answer 4

Person’s agreement to allow something to happen which is not expressly given but rather inferred from a person’s actions or inactions

Question 5

Informed consent

Answer 5

Person’s agreement to allow something to happen (such as surgery) that is based on a full disclosure of the facts needed to make the decision intelligently-that is, knowledge of risks involved, alternatives, benefits, and other information needed by a reasonable person to make a decision

Question 6

Negligence

Answer 6

Failure to do something that a reasonable person guided by the ordinary considerations that ordinarily regulate human affairs would do or the doing of something a reasonable and prudent person would not do

Question 7

Slander

Answer 7

Defamation which involves the spoken word

Question 8

Autonomy

Answer 8

Person’s self reliance, independence, liberty, rights, privacy, individual choice, freedom of the will, and self-contained ability to decide

Question 9

Beneficence

Answer 9

Doing of good; active promotion of goodness, kindness, and charity

Question 10

Consequentialism

Answer 10

Belief that the worth of actions is determined by their ends or consequences; actions are right or wrong according to the balance of their good and bad consequences

Question 11

Ethical dilemmas

Answer 11

Situations requiring moral judgement between two or more equally problem-fraught alternatives; two or more competing moral norms are present, creating a challenge about what to do

Question 12

Ethical outrage

Answer 12

Gross violation of commonly held standards of decency or human rights

Question 13

Ethics

Answer 13

Systematic study of rightness and wrongness of human conduct and character as known as by natural reason

Question 14

Laws

Answer 14

Regulations established by government and applicable to people within a certain political subdivision

Question 15

Libel

Answer 15

Type of defamation which involves written or published comments or pictures

Question 16

Morals

Answer 16

Generally accepted customs, principles, or habits of right living and conduct in a society and the individual’s practice in relation to these

Question 17

Nonconsequentialism

Answer 17

Belief that actions themselves, rather than consequences, determine the worth of actions; actions are right or wrong according to the morality of the acts themselves

Question 18

Nonmaleficence

Answer 18

Ethical principle that places high value on avoiding harm to others

Question 19

Professional etiquette

Answer 19

Manners and attitudes generally accepted by members of a profession

Question 20

Veracity

Answer 20

Duty to tell the truth and avoid deception