mid-term exam Flashcards
(119 cards)
ability to recognize ethical issues and make ethical distinctions to formulate judgments about what is good, right, or virtuous
Ethical Discernment
applying knowledge and skills of communication appropriately, responsively, and ethically in a specific situation
Competent Communication
Focuses on ethics as a practice for problem-solving that applies concepts and theories about what is good, right, or virtuous in real-world situations
Ethics as practical philosophy
Addresses real-world situations in ways that are local, timely, and responsive to the facts of a situation, rather than abstractly focusing on ethical issues and problems
Ethics as practical philosophy
Much communication, especially oral communication, is
__________ and leaves no physical trace of its existence
ephemeral
A form of action that uses symbols to promote cooperation by encouraging communicators to identify with one another
Rhetorical communication
Each communicator participates in a complex process of creating shared meanings with other communicators that affects everyone involved in the communication process
Transactional communication
Consists of the meanings communicators create and share as they communicate with one another. These meanings influence communicators’ perceptions and understanding of what they communicate
Content dimension
Concerns how communication acts and episodes that co-create meaning, and simultaneously co create relational connections or links between communicators
Relational Dimension
A process in which our language use responsively creates meaning and relational connection with others and so creates social worlds such as our relationships, workplaces, and communities
Constitutive communication
Involves openness and focus on another person, creating a relational syncing between the acknowledger and another.
Positive acknowledgment
Truthful, open, and clear communication
Authentic Communication
Two or more people authentically communicating, face-to-face, in an open-ended and nonjudgmental process to understand one another
Common Definition of Dialogue
Communicators do not need to meet or even know of one another’s existence, to engage one another in an open-ended dialogue.
Communicators are connected by their communication acts that link them to one another in a chain of communication about an idea, issue, or topic
Bakhtinian dialogue
Says that dialogue is an ongoing conversation that has a past and a future that extends beyond individual communicators. Is constructed by the messages that relationally connect communicators to one another.
Bakhtin’s chain of communication
The process of developing individual practices of ethical discernment judgment, and decision making that guide action
Moral development
Explains how existing practices of ethics develop but do not tell you what your personal ethical standard should be
Descriptive study of ethics
Theories that offer arguments about which values, principles, or practices should guide your discernment and decision-making so that your actions can be good, right, or virtuous
Prescriptive theories of ethics
3 things that influence how humans understand what is good or bad: empathy, an equality bias that promotes fairness, and disgust
Moral emotions
The capacity to recognize the existence of ethical issues and the impact of actions on others
Ethical Sensitivity
From the point of view of moral psychologists, __________ is a biologically innate, value-neutral response to emotional distress that stimulates prosocial or cooperative behavior needed for human survival.
empathy
Neurons that stimulate imitation of behavior such as facial expressions or emotional expressions. They create an automatic biological basis for emotionally understanding others, also called “mind reading”
Mirror Neurons
Involves taking the perspectives of others and offering prosocial sympathetic actions
Cognitive Empathy
book defines ethics as:
what is good, right, and virtuous
