Lifespan Development Final Exam
Course Introduction
Lifespan Development is an in-depth exploration of human growth and change from conception through old age. This course examines the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional aspects of development at each life stage, drawing on major theories and research findings in psychology. Students will gain insight into the complex interplay of biological, environmental, and cultural factors that shape individual development, and will analyze real-world applications of developmental principles in various contexts, including education, healthcare, and the family.
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Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood A Cultural Approach 5th Edition by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
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Chapter 1: Ethics and Business
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Q1) Describe the advantages associated with ethical decision-making.
Answer: Unethical behavior not only creates legal risks for a business, it creates financial and marketing risks as well. Managing these risks requires managers and executives to remain vigilant about their company's ethics. It is very clear now that a company can lose in the marketplace, it can go out of business, and its employees can go to jail if no one is paying attention to the ethical standards of the firm.A firm's ethical reputation can provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace and with customers, suppliers, and employees. Managing ethically can also pay significant dividends in organizational structure and efficiency. Trust, loyalty, commitment, creativity, and initiative are just some of the organizational benefits that are more likely to flourish within ethically stable and credible organizations.
Q2) In business, every decision can be covered by economic, legal, or company rules and regulations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Normative disciplines presuppose some underlying ____.
Answer: values
Explanation: Normative disciplines presuppose some underlying values.
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Chapter 2: Ethical Decision Making: Personal and Professional Contexts
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Q1) The Arthur Andersen auditors did not notice how low Enron had fallen in terms of its unethical decisions over a period of time. According to Bazerman and Chugh, this omission is an example of ____.
A)inattentional blindness
B)descriptive ignorance
C)change blindness
D)normative myopia
Answer: C
Q2) _____ is one element that distinguishes good people who make ethically responsible decisions from good people who do not.
A)Normative myopia
B)Inattentional blindness
C)Change blindness
D)Moral imagination
Answer: D
Q3) Decisions made on economic grounds imply the lack of ethical considerations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Philosophical Ethics and Business
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Q1) Employees have a right to a minimum wage, equal opportunity, and to bargain collectively as part of a union. These rights are examples of contractual agreements with employers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) A philosophical and reasoned ethics must provide justifications for why a human being should act and decide in a particular prescribed way.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The concept of moral rights is central to the:
A)virtue-based ethical tradition.
B)consequence-based ethical tradition.
C)behavior-based ethical tradition.
D)principle-based ethical tradition.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: The Corporate Culture-Impact and Implications
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Q1) A(n) _____ environment is one in which employees act in responsible ways, even when the law does not require it.
Q2) The United States Sentencing Commission is an independent agency that regulates sentencing policies in the federal court system.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements is true of ethical cultures?
A)Workplace ethical cultures have no impact on decision making.
B)Subordinates are expected not to act unless directed by superior authorities.
C)Decisions are expected to be taken based on laws and not on ethical values.
D)Employees are expected to act in responsible ways, even if the law does not require it.
Q4) Which of the following situations could result in the business culture becoming a determining factor in ethical decision making?
A)Lack of competition
B)Law providing incomplete answers
C)Lack of strong leadership
D)Stagnant or decreasing profits
Q5) How are leaders responsible for supporting ethical decision-making?
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Chapter 5: Corporate Social Responsibility
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Q1) Which of the following versions of corporate social responsibility suggests that the long-term financial well-being of every firm is directly tied to questions of how the firm both affects and is affected by the natural environment?
A)Social web
B)Philanthropic
C)Social entrepreneurship
D)Sustainability
Q2) The social web model views business as a citizen of the society and, like all members of a society, business must conform to the normal ethical duties and obligations that we all face.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Volunteering and charitable work are examples of the most demanding responsibility.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the _____ model of corporate social responsibility, social goals are brought into the core of a firm's business model, and economic goals are balanced against social goals.
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Chapter 6: Ethical Decision Making: Employer
Responsibilities and Employee Rights
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Q1) Identify the correct statement about government standards in the government-regulated ethics approach to health and safety.
A)Due to its focus on prevention rather than compensation, standards cannot address the "first generation" problem of the market controlled approach to health and safety.
B)Standards would favor individual bargaining between employers and employees as the approach to workplace health and safety.
C)Standards can overcome market failures that result from insufficient information.
D)Standards call for the determination of comparison of probabilities of harm involved in various activities.
Q2) Philosophically, the right of _____ is the right to be protected against the arbitrary use of authority.
A)continuance
B)freedom of association
C)due process
D)self-determination
Q3) Correlate health and safety issues at workplace with ideals.
Q4) Contrast the two dominant perspectives on sweatshops.
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Chapter 7: Ethical Decision Making: Technology and Privacy in the Workplace
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Q1) From a utilitarian perspective, individual rights to privacy or right to control information about oneself may be outweighed in cases where:
A)public safety is at risk.
B)the employee compensation package is very high.
C)the proposed benefit to the employer is high.
D)employee productivity depends directly on the number of hours they put in.
Q2) Which of the following is true about the European Union's Directive on Personal Data Protection?
A)It prohibits EU firms from transferring personal information to a non-EU country unless that country maintains "adequate protections" of its own.
B)It is also known as the European Union Safe Harbor Act.
C)It encourages member countries to maintain myriad standards for information gathering and protection.
D)It states that United States in the only non-member country that maintains "adequate protection" of personal data.
Q3) Explain the ethical source of privacy using the perspective of property rights.
Q4) Discuss the nuances associated with drug testing, and outline the arguments for and against it.
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Chapter 8: Ethics and Marketing
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Q1) While approaching an ethical issue in marketing, the _____ tradition would want to know the degree to which the transaction provided actual as opposed to merely apparent benefits.
Q2) Which of the following statements is true about negligence?
A)It is not a central component of tort law.
B)One can be negligent by doing something that one should not.
C)One cannot be held negligent by failing to do something that one should have done.
D)It excludes acts of both commission and omission.
Q3) Economist John Kenneth Galbraith claimed that advertising and marketing were creating the very consumer demand that production then aimed to satisfy. Dubbed the "_____," this assertion held that consumer demand relied on what producers had to sell.
Q4) Explain the contractual standards for product safety.
Q5) How does advertising distort the economy?
A)It manipulates prices for promotion to gain a foothold in a market.
B)It results in supply becoming a function of demand.
C)It is not able to create nonautonomous desires.
D)It creates irrational and trivial consumer wants.
Q6) Outline the implication of the social contract tradition within business.
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Chapter 9: Business and Environmental Sustainability
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Q1) The "circular flow model" differentiates natural resources from the other factors of production.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The _____ model does not differentiate natural resources from the other factors of production.
Q3) Why was the Brundtland Commission formed?
Q4) Which of the following explains the statement "All resources are fungible"?
A)It means that all resources can be regulated by the government.
B)It means that all resources can be replaced by substitutes.
C)It means that all resources cannot be duplicated.
D)It means that all resources cannot be recycled and reused.
Q5) According to the conservation movement, the natural world was valued as a resource, providing humans with both direct and indirect benefits.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the market-based approach to resolving environmental challenges.
Q7) What is an optimal level of pollution?
Q8) Elaborate on the conservation movement.
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Chapter 10: Ethical Decision Making: Corporate
Governance, Accounting, and Finance
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Q1) In terms of ethical theory, lofty compensation packages have a utilitarian function when they act as incentives for executives to produce greater overall results.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Risk assessment and ongoing monitoring are elements that comprise the control structure of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In order to prevent accountants from being put into conflicts, the _____ publishes professional rules.
Q4) COSO is one of the first efforts to address corporate culture in a quasi-regulatory framework in recognition of its significant impact on the satisfaction of organizational objectives.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the conflicts surrounding accounting practices.
Q6) _____ refers to cultural issues such as integrity, ethical values, competence, philosophy, and operating style.
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