Weinstein and Mignano Found That Expert Teachers Primarily Used Detention

question 69

Multiple Choice

Weinstein and Mignano found that expert teachers primarily used detention to

• A)assemble misbehaving students so they could be dealt with as a group.
• B)make the consequences somewhat public so that peer pressure to behave may be encouraged.
• C)prevent the student from participating in a desired extra-curricular activity.
• D)talk privately with the student about why the particular misbehavior occurred.

Explain the influence of social consensus on the perception of decisions as ethical or unethical.

Compare and contrast ethical principles used to justify decisions, highlighting differences between self-serving and community-focused approaches.

Define concepts of proximity, temporal immediacy, and concentration of effect in the context of ethical issues.

Understand various ethical principles and their application in decision-making.

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Definitions:

Universal Instantiation

A logical rule that allows one to deduce that a statement applies to specific instances given it holds for all instances.

Modus Tollens (MT)

A form of logical argument where the denial of the consequent leads to the denial of the antecedent.

Simplification (Simp)

A logical operation that breaks down complex arguments or propositions into simpler components.

Modus Ponens (MP)

A form of valid argument in deductive logic that, if a given premise is true ('if P then Q'), and the antecedent (P) is also true, then the consequent (Q) must be true.