long run? A recent study conducted by Krcmar and Vieire was put into place to test whether violence on television had an effect on the moral reasoning of children‚ and why does this effect occur. Within the study‚ the researchers realized that family communication and family modeling also had a part in the structure of a child’s moral reasoning. Moral reasoning has been identified as the ability to make and offer explanations for ethical choices; perspective taking is an ability to imagine the view
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about what is right or wrong. Ethical decisions are impartial‚ meaning that they apply to everyone. When it comes to ethics there are two types of reasoning: Consequences-based ethical reasoning and rule-based ethical reasoning. Consequences-based ethical reasoning is right or wrong is only based on the results of the action and rule based ethical reasoning is when someone believes every act is either right or wrong. In the eyes of the law‚ laws are judged to be right or good when they affect the majority
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According to Frankena (1973) Socrates argued that there were three typical patterns of reasoning in moral matters. The first belief was that no one should harm to another person. The principle was if an action was to the detriment of another human then it went counter to moral reasoning. If a person killed another person for whatever cause then it cannot be justified using moral reasoning. This belief has been used by those who oppose fighting a war‚ condemning a person to death for a crime‚ or by
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Causal reasoning in financial reporting and voluntary disclosure This paper examines causal reasoning‚ applying the theories to financial reporting. Causal reasoning involves diagnosis (determining the cause of an effect) and prediction (vice versa). These are important and commonplace amongst analysts‚ investors and management regarding company earnings and share prices. However‚ there is very little recent research employing causal reasoning theories to this field. Attribution theory describes
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have been many studies in the field of prosocial moral reasoning and on prosocial behaviours over the decade. Researchers have constantly tried to evaluate reasons behind these‚ mainly in children and adolescents. Prosocial behaviour can be defined as helping that is not motivated by professional obligations and is not based on organizations‚ other than for charities (Hewstone‚ Stroebe‚ & Jonas‚ 2007). Prosocial moral reasoning is‚ reasoning about moral dilemmas in which one person ’s needs or desires
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The conflicting interaction of belief-bias and logicality in syllogistic reasoning tasks Abstract The study conducted replicated Evans (1983) experiment to investigate the presence of believe-bias in syllogistic reasoning tasks‚ using an equal number of male and female participants to avoid gender differences in the results. The findings showed there was an interaction between believability and logicality‚ suggesting that dual-processing theories influenced the results
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chart above‚ the description of mathematical reasoning ability that students acquire Adaptive learning directly based on category of PAM is as follows: -on every indicator of Adaptive mathematical reasoning‚ PAPLT better than the PAPLS and PAPLS better than the PAPLR. -on the category a high Adaptive reasoning ability PAM mathematically students acquire learning directly from the lowest to the indicator is 1‚ 3‚ 2 and 4. On the category of Adaptive reasoning abilities are PAM mathematically students
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Impact of Culture on the Ethical reasoning of an Individual Abstract The purpose of this paper is to identify‚ relate and assess the impact of culture on the ethical reasoning of an individual. This report reviews current literature on this topic and identifies the various factors involved in the same. Established theories on ethics and moral development are reviewed and a culture-based model of ethical decision making is derived. Prepositions concerning the influence of various cultural dimensions
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TITLE The Effects of Mind Puzzle Games to Nonverbal Reasoning Ability among College Students. HYPOTHESIS Mind puzzle games has no significant effect to nonverbal reasoning ability of college students. CONTROL VARIABLE: Educational Attainment RANDOM VARIABLE: Gender and Age INDEPENDENT VARIABLE: Mind Puzzle Games DEPENDENT VARIABLE: Nonverbal Reasoning Ability BACKGROUND OF THE TOPIC Nonverbal tasks involve skills such as: ability to recognize visual sequences
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Reasoning: – Facts‚ Inferences‚ Judgments – Premises & Conclusion A fact is information that is verifiable‚ or can be “proven” to be true. How do we verify it? We observe it for ourselves by - looking out the window to see if it’s raining - touching a snake to see that it’s not slimy - tasting the soup to find out if it is salty Or we trust other people to tell us facts - a friend who says the class has been canceled - a newspaper reporter who describes an earthquake in
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