Project X for Fortified

1. Describe the outcome of viewing college merely as a means for gaining a degree.

Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

2. State a problem that you face in the most explicitly detailed manner you can, and then analyze as many attributes as you can discover that are portions of this problem.

Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

3. Analyze the attributes of egocentric domination and egocentric submission, and then describe an experience of each from your own experience.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

4. What are the four common patterns of irrational or unethical decision-making? Describe each type and provide an example from your own experience where you saw this happen or used this type decision-making. Describe what you could have done differently.

Your response should be at least 500 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

5. The utilitarian moral theorist Jeremy Bentham claimed that each person's interest should:

be given value according to what that person does for society.

be recognized according to their rationality.

be weighed by universal standards.

be counted as equal to the interests of all others.

6. According to Singer, this is the foundation for having interests.

Capacity for rationality

Capacity to suffer

Capacity for language

Capacity to live

7. A form of government in which the ruling power belongs to a few people is __________.

democracy

oligarchy

socialism

communism

8. The economic theory that is focused on group ownership of the means of production with all members of the community sharing in the work and the products is __________.

socialism

capitalism

communism

democracy

9. The economic system in which a majority of objects and resources are privately owned and run in a for-profit manner is __________.

socialism

capitalism

communism

democracy

Match the explanation with the appropriate Key Term

1. Activist problem solver

2. Pseudo-solutions

3. Pseudo-problems

4. Big problems

5. Options for action

6. Egocentrism

7. Sociocentrism

8. Innate egocentrism

9. Innate sociocentrism

10. Innate wish fulfillment

A.	Form of irrational problem-solving that involves solutions that do not adequately solve the problems.
B.	The tendency to view everything in the world in relationship to oneself.
C.	Problems that have outcomes that will have long-term consequences.
D.	I believe it because I want it to be true.
E.	It is true because we believe it.
F.	Problems that exist because we seek false or irrational wants.
G.	It is true because I believe it.
H.	The various ways that one can respond to one’s problems.
I.	The tendency to view everything in the world in relationship to the group that one identifies with.
J.	Someone who seeks out solutions to problems and does not let problems hinder her search for a solution.