Moral Psychology and the Environment

What/who is a Rational Actor?

(someone who...)

• makes choices based on a reasoned comparison of actions

• lets emotion guide them

• consults the two wolves within them

A real life example of a pragmatic model

• maladaptive management

• the scientific method

• adaptive management

What are the three main areas of focus in morals foundation theory?

• Survival Advantage

  Intuitive primacy

  Moral Reasoning establishes guidelines

• survival is hard

  primacy effect

  moral establishments

• community learning

  language

  experiences

What makes something a matter of morals and ethics

• It is evaluated by proscriptive or prescriptive norms

• because someone says it is

• if it is permitted

• if it isn't a matter of obligation

Which of the following is one of the 4 approaches proposed by Sandler

• Virtues are grounded in concepts of human excellence & flourishing

• virtues to the benefits of those possessing them

• virtues belonging to different personality types

What did Frasz consider a weakness in virtue ethics?

• • cannot guarantee avoidance of bad choices

• • no specific guidance in decision making

• they never did leg day

• they where too unspecific

For something to be moral it must be...

• generalizable, applicable across human groups

• something that some people agree on

• not rooted in power, convention or personal preference

• specific to a group

Which of the following could be a factor of an empathetic response

(according to the slides)

• familiarity and similarity

• cues

• personality type

• resource dependency

• socialization

Which answer holds deontological values? (in Carmen Tanners study)

• "hold that not doing the action is okay if it saves people money"

• undertake the suggested action only if the benefits are great enough"

• none of these

• "Take action no matter how small the benefits/high costs"

What is the name of this concept: [it] suggests that there are universal moral principles that should generally guide our actions. (opposed relativism)

• justice morality

• social domain framework

• Ethical objectivism

• principle of equality