The Double-Effect Principle Refers to _____

question 19

Multiple Choice

The double-effect principle refers to _____.

• A)faithfulness, loyalty, and devotion to one's duties in an incompetent person
• B)obligations to be fair to all people and includes fairness, honesty, impartiality
• C)mentally challenged individuals or those who were once competent
• D)recognizing that ethical choices may result in adverse outcomes

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Definitions:

Cognitive Economy

A principle in cognitive psychology that suggests humans strive to simplify cognitive processes and structures to minimize effort.

Frequency of Association

A concept in psychology referring to how often two ideas, words, or concepts are linked together in a person's memory, affecting the ease of recall or recognition.

Encoding Specificity

The principle that recall is more effective if the context at the time of encoding matches the context at the time of retrieval.

Cognitive Economy

A principle in cognitive psychology that suggests the brain strives to simplify information processing by using the most efficient and simplest ways to understand and process information.