Chapter 11 Level 2 Quiz

Contexts of Application: Thinking Critically about Health, Law, and Ethics
. The availability error has to do with the human mind's tendency, when evaluating various risks, to think first of the most exciting and exotic possibilities.When this tendency is observed in physicians, it often takes the form of what is known as ________.

. Expertise is always limited in ________.

. ________ is NOT a fallacy to which we may be subject when deciding what to believe with regard to staying healthy and responding to illness.

. In Canada, lawyers are not eligible to serve ________.

. In a criminal trial, the ________ is responsible for convincing the court that the accused is innocent.

. In a criminal trial, to argue vigorously for a guilty verdict is the job of the ________.

. In a criminal trial, the government (as represented by the Crown prosecutor) bears ________.

. One example of faulty conditional reasoning we must beware of in legal contexts is ________.

. In ethics, the most respected form of consequentialism is known as ________.

. The principle that "ought implies can" can be represented in propositional logic as follows ________.

. Themost basic critical thinking skill when it comes to your health is the ability to engage in reasoning about ________.

. The ethical tradition referred to as deontologyis most famously associated with ________.

. The ethical tradition known as the virtue theory is associated historically with ________.

. The utilitarian tradition in ethics is most famously represented by ________.

. ________ is NOT an argumentative fallacy, the effect of which judges and juries must be on guard against in the context of criminal proceedings.

. Prosecutors who argue that you must either convict the accused or let a vicious killer go free have offered the judge or jury ________.

. One of the most important decisions any citizen can make, or help to make, is the decision to send a fellow citizen to jail.

. If a health claim conflicts with the opinion of a health professional, we have good reason to doubt it.

. In a criminal trial, the defence counsel bears the burden of proof.

. In a criminal trial, the Crown is responsible to present a balanced view of the evidence.

. When evaluating a health claim about which health experts disagree, you should proportion your belief to the evidence.

. When health experts disagree about a health claim, we have good reason to doubt it.

. Health professionals are not experts.

. The ethical tradition that argues from rights and duties is referred to as deontology.

. The ethical tradition which holds that it is the expected consequences of our behaviour that matters is known as deontology.

. Logical structure is an important factor to consider when evaluating ethical arguments.

. Police officers must apply the law without the kind of bias that results from hasty generalizations about people in particular racial or socioeconomic categories.

. The theory of homeopathy isvery broad in scope.

. Weird theories are not especially common with regard to health.

. Under the current legal system, any time someone is charged with a crime, the court is facedwith the challenge of evaluating two competing points of view.

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