Introduction to Ethics Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Introduction to Ethics provides students with a foundational understanding of the major theories, principles, and concepts that shape moral reasoning and ethical decision-making. The course explores the works of influential philosophers, including Aristotle, Kant, and Mill, and examines topics such as utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, and moral relativism. Students will analyze real-world ethical dilemmas in fields like medicine, business, and the environment, developing critical thinking skills and the ability to articulate and defend their own ethical views in a reasoned manner.
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Chapter 1: History
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Q1) How many motors were in factories by 1901?
A) Almost 200, 000
B) Almost 400,000
C) Almost 500, 000
D) Over 700, 000
Answer: B
Q2) The Meteorological Office set up how many stations in the British Isles?
A) 12
B) 15
C) 16
D) 27
Answer: B
Q3) What was the key machine in Mahatma Ghandi's ideal world?
A) The clock
B) The sewing machine
C) The spindle machine
D) The spinning wheel
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Society
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Q1) What is a "brown good"?
A) One that is ethically suspect
B) One that is marketed to single men
C) One that is for leisure and entertainment
D) One that is designed to fail
Answer: C
Q2) In the period between 1870 and 1920,what installations seemed to become more important than ports for transport in the new industrial economy?
A) Railroad stations
B) Electric power plants
C) Bus stations
D) Airports
Answer: A
Q3) Who argues that the revolution in information technology is creating a global economy?
A) Manuel Castells
B) Don Quixote
C) Manuel Vargas
D) Peter Giddens
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Ethics
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Q1) Who described the "accordion effect"?
A) Rawls
B) Powers
C) Kant
D) Feinberg
Answer: D
Q2) Where do Johnson and Powers locate agency?
A) In the designer and user
B) In the user
C) In the artifact and the user
D) In the designer, user and artifact
Answer: D
Q3) What model of intentional behavior has contemporary action theory suggested?
A) A casual model
B) A modal model
C) A causal model
D) A technological model
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Security Surveillance
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Q1) Who or what killed TIPS?
A) Congress
B) Homeland Security
C) The Patriot Act
D) Media outrage
Q2) What does Max Boot refer to as the "American Hiroshima"?
A) Attack on Pearl Harbor
B) 9/11 attacks
C) 1982 Beirut Marine barracks bombing
D) Attack on the USS Cole
Q3) What is the good to be maximized,according to Taylor,under a plausible version of consequentialism?
A) Human autonomy
B) Human well-being
C) The well-being of all
D) Privacy
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Chapter 5: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
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Q1) What is the name of Hiroshi Ishiguro's robotic double?
A) Babybot
B) Infanoid
C) Robovie
D) Geminoid
Q2) Which chess champion did Deep Blue defeat?
A) Garry Kasparov
B) Isaac Asimov
C) Bobby Fisher
D) Gibson Praise
Q3) According to Operto,what other systems besides robotics may contribute to solving many open human issues?
A) Cryogenics Systems
B) Digital Economic Systems
C) Eugenics Systems
D) Bionics Systems
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Chapter 6: Nanotechnology
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Q1) What is the name for the robotic red blood cells that would enable someone to sprint for 15 minutes without taking a breath?
A) Respirocytes
B) Breath-o-matics
C) Repairocytes
D) Nanolungs
Q2) At what point does Kurzweil anticipate nonbiological intelligence will definitely surpass biological intelligence?
A) 2050
B) 2015
C) 2100
D) 2233
Q3) What does "GNR" stand for?
A) Genetic nanotechnological respiration
B) Genetics, nanoscience, and robotics
C) Globular nano-respirocytes
D) Genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics
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Chapter 7: Inernet & Social Media
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Q1) What is the notion that science and technology have a symbiotic relationship,each one helping the other,while social values shape the precise forms that technological artifacts take?
A) Collaborative filtering
B) The Technical Code
C) The Technical Design
D) Social Construction of Technology
Q2) Flanigan states that the Internet's end-to-end structure is well-suited for:
A) Incubation
B) Infrastructure
C) Isolation
D) Innovation
Q3) Which Italian humanist worried that the printing press would make intellectuals lazy and less studious?
A) Hieronimo Squarciafico
B) Leonardo Di Vinci
C) Michelangelo
D) Galileo Galilei
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Chapter 8: Biotech and Genetic Engineering
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Q1) Kass suggests that now would be the best time to avoid a post-human world by gaining control of what industry that as of now has quite limited commercial interests?
A) Surveillance technology
B) Human cloning
C) Biometrics
D) Cryotechnology
Q2) Who held that "repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom"?
A) Kass
B) Huxley
C) Asimov
D) Kant
Q3) Who said that "what the public wants is not to be sick"?
A) Leon Kass
B) John Searle
C) James Watson
D) Aldus Huxley
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Chapter 9: Population, environment, Climate Change
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Q1) What is the main source of the increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
A) Methane
B) Deforestation
C) Landfills
D) Burning fossil fuels
Q2) Where is most carbon dioxide located on Mars?
A) Polar ice caps
B) The upper atmosphere
C) Soil and rocks
D) Olympus Mons
Q3) Which tree does Robert W.Kates focus on in his article in this volume?
A) Olive
B) Oak
C) Neem
D) Maple
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