Quiz 2 Wordbank Flashcards
Assault
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
Battery
Any unlawful touching of another that is without justification or excuse
False imprisonment
Conscious restraint of the freedom of a person without proper authorization, privilege, or consent
Implied consent
Person’s agreement to allow something to happen which is not expressly given but rather inferred from a person’s actions or inactions
Informed consent
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
Negligence
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
Slander
Defamation which involves the spoken word
Autonomy
Person’s self reliance, independence, liberty, rights, privacy, individual choice, freedom of the will, and self-contained ability to decide
Beneficence
Doing of good; active promotion of goodness, kindness, and charity
Consequentialism
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
Ethical dilemmas
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
Ethical outrage
Gross violation of commonly held standards of decency or human rights
Ethics
Systematic study of rightness and wrongness of human conduct and character as known as by natural reason
Laws
Regulations established by government and applicable to people within a certain political subdivision
Libel
Type of defamation which involves written or published comments or pictures
Morals
Generally accepted customs, principles, or habits of right living and conduct in a society and the individual’s practice in relation to these
Nonconsequentialism
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
Nonmaleficence
Ethical principle that places high value on avoiding harm to others
Professional etiquette
Manners and attitudes generally accepted by members of a profession
Veracity
Duty to tell the truth and avoid deception
