Which of the Following Is a Goal of Teaching Ethics

question 5

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a goal of teaching ethics to nursing students as a preventive strategy, as identified by Thompson and Thompson in 1989?

• A)To help nurses tolerate and decrease agreements and ambiguity
• B)To help nurses develop critical thinking skills
• C)To help stimulate the nurse's moral imagination
• D)To help nurses solve ethical and moral problems

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Definitions:

Dispositionally

Pertaining to or resulting from one's inherent qualities of mind and character.

Self-serving Bias

A common cognitive bias where individuals attribute positive outcomes to their own actions but blame external factors for negative outcomes.

Dispositional Explanation

An attribution that ascribes behavior to innate qualities of the individual, such as personality traits or temperaments, rather than to external circumstances.

Situational Explanation

The interpretation of behavior or events based on the context or circumstances in which they occur, rather than attributing them to personal traits.