SPTE 201 NOVEMBER EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is ethics?
Answer:
the branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs
Question:
2. What is an example of a guiding principle?
Answer:
Guiding Principles
•Do what you think is right
•Golden Rule
•Guiding religious principles
•Worry about what's legal - CYA
Question:
3. How do we develop guiding principles do they come from?
Answer:
Where do these principles come from?
•Learned
•Society
•Location matters - community/culture
•Family/persons of influence
Question:
4. What is deontology?
Answer:
•concerned w/ adherence to rules. Consequences are irrelevant.
It specifically does not look to consequences of actions to determine right or wrong. Instead it examines a
situation for the existence of essential right or wrong.
Question:
5. What is consequentialism?
Answer:
the doctrine that the morality of an action is to be judged solely by its consequences.
Question:
6. What is a non-moral value?
Answer:
Values that are goal oriented, such as fame, popularity, independence, and wealth
Question:
7. What is an example of a non-moral value?
, Answer:
fame, popularity, independence, and wealth
Question:
8. What is an ethical dilemma?
Answer:
Situation where someone is forced to choose between two alternatives.
Question:
9. What is an example of an ethical dilemma?
Answer:
a nurse caring for a patient in which the care conflicts with his or her religion
Question:
10. athletic participation predates...
Answer:
US Constitution
Question:
11. Know some of the contributions of other countries to the types of sports that we have today.
Answer:
Native American - lacrosse Europe -rugby, cricket, tennis Africans, javelin, wrestling, boxing USA -
baseball
Question:
12. What school hired the first full/time faculty/coach? What year did this happen?
Answer:
•1864: William Wood was hired by the Yale crew team as the first "professional" coach
Question:
13. What effects did sport participation have in schools in the early 1900's?
Answer:
•Schools and other agencies promoted sport participation to aid in solving broad social problems such as ill
health and juvenile delinquency
Question:
14. What are some of the programmatic concerns for youth sport?
Answer:
Concussions, "win at all costs"
Question:
15. What are some of the financial concerns for youth sport?
Answer:
•Although school and youth sport organizations are not-for-profit enterprises, this does not mean that
associated programs are not concerned with controlling costs and maintaining balanced budgets (2008
economic downturn)
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is ethics?
Answer:
the branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs
Question:
2. What is an example of a guiding principle?
Answer:
Guiding Principles
•Do what you think is right
•Golden Rule
•Guiding religious principles
•Worry about what's legal - CYA
Question:
3. How do we develop guiding principles do they come from?
Answer:
Where do these principles come from?
•Learned
•Society
•Location matters - community/culture
•Family/persons of influence
Question:
4. What is deontology?
Answer:
•concerned w/ adherence to rules. Consequences are irrelevant.
It specifically does not look to consequences of actions to determine right or wrong. Instead it examines a
situation for the existence of essential right or wrong.
Question:
5. What is consequentialism?
Answer:
the doctrine that the morality of an action is to be judged solely by its consequences.
Question:
6. What is a non-moral value?
Answer:
Values that are goal oriented, such as fame, popularity, independence, and wealth
Question:
7. What is an example of a non-moral value?
, Answer:
fame, popularity, independence, and wealth
Question:
8. What is an ethical dilemma?
Answer:
Situation where someone is forced to choose between two alternatives.
Question:
9. What is an example of an ethical dilemma?
Answer:
a nurse caring for a patient in which the care conflicts with his or her religion
Question:
10. athletic participation predates...
Answer:
US Constitution
Question:
11. Know some of the contributions of other countries to the types of sports that we have today.
Answer:
Native American - lacrosse Europe -rugby, cricket, tennis Africans, javelin, wrestling, boxing USA -
baseball
Question:
12. What school hired the first full/time faculty/coach? What year did this happen?
Answer:
•1864: William Wood was hired by the Yale crew team as the first "professional" coach
Question:
13. What effects did sport participation have in schools in the early 1900's?
Answer:
•Schools and other agencies promoted sport participation to aid in solving broad social problems such as ill
health and juvenile delinquency
Question:
14. What are some of the programmatic concerns for youth sport?
Answer:
Concussions, "win at all costs"
Question:
15. What are some of the financial concerns for youth sport?
Answer:
•Although school and youth sport organizations are not-for-profit enterprises, this does not mean that
associated programs are not concerned with controlling costs and maintaining balanced budgets (2008
economic downturn)
