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Ethics: Unit 3
Study material for Wednesday's exam! (11/19)
Term | Definition |
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Normative Ethics | craft a sensible decision procedure regarding how we morally ought to act (if possible). (subfield of ethics). |
Applied Ethics | subfield of ethics that focuses primarily on ethical dilemmas that arise in specific real-world contexts, such as business and medicine. |
Behavioral Ethics | field that seeks to understand how people actually behave when confronted with ethical dilemmas. |
Bounded Awareness | common tendency to exclude important and relevant information from our decisions by placing arbitrary and dysfunctional bounds around our definition of a problem. |
Bounded Ethicality | way of making moral decisions that harm others when that harm is inconsistent with the decision-makers conscious beliefs and preferences. |
Ethical Fading | a process by which ethical considerations are eliminated from a decision. |
In-Group Favoritism | research shows that we are intuitively most comfortable doing favors for those we identify---that is, with people who are a lot like us. In particular, we tend to be biased toward people who share our alma mater, religion, race, or gender. |
Egocentrism | tendency to focus your own contributions to a joint effort and not on those of other group members. [Preference for a certain outcome on the basis of self-interest & alter the importance of the attributes that affect what is fair.] |
Ordinary Prejudice | prejudiced and stereotypical beliefs that are held subconsciously as a result of the processes we use to categorize, perceive, and judge information. |
Stereotype Threat | when members of a group perform according to stereotypes about them. |
Implicit Association Test | a quick, easy way to measure how implicitly biased individual people are. |
Motivated Blindness | tendency not to notice others’ wrongdoing when noticing it would harm the observer. |
Indirect Blindness | tendency not to notice a person’s unethical behavior when they act through other people. |
Outcome Bias | tendency to evaluate actions based on their results to a degree that is not logically justified. |
Identifiable Victim Threat | tendency for people to be more concerned with Identifiable victims than statistical victims. |
Microaggression | (1) A comment that implies offensive bias against some group, usually without intending to do so. (2) Any seemingly innocuous comment that causes offense. |