Test Revision Extra Credit

This assignment is due by Tuesday 1/11/2011.  The purpose of this extra credit is to give you some feedback and suggestions to help you develop your studying, reading, and writing skills.  You will also practice some techniques for systematically approaching your tests, both during and before the test.  If I find that you have conscientiously completed the assignment, I will add 1pt (10%) to your test #1 grade. 

First, take a few minutes and go to one or more of the linked pages and do some practice exercises.  At the beginning of your revised answer, note which, if any, exercises you completed.

Next, Wallis gave a short lecture on systematically answering test questions and studying.  For each question you wish to submit as part of this exercise you'll need two things;  (1) A copy of the lecture outlines (Just the first few slides of a lecture) for the relevant lectures,  (2) A copy of the test questions (below).  For each question you revise: (1) Go through the lecture outline and try to do the things described in (B) and (C) in the study section of Wallis' Lecture on test taking (slides one and two).  (2) Print out or copy each question and write your answer (and mark-up the question) as outlined in the reading test questions section of Wallis' lecture on test taking (slides three and four).  (3) Turn in all your work to Wallis by 1/11/11.  You can use your blue book to write your answers, but turn in all other material stapled inside the blue book.

Test Question

1.) In class Wallis presented four “big” questions addressed by ethicists; (1) Are There Universal Normative Ethical Principles? (2) Why/How Do Ethical Principles Constrain Our Actions? (3) How Might We Come To Know Them (If They Exist)? (4) What Are Those Principles? Wallis suggested that one can understand Divine Command Theory as straightforwardly providing answers to two of those questions. What is Divine Command Theory? Which of the “big” questions did Wallis identify as addressed by Divine Command Theory (make sure to indicate how that question should be understood, i.e., what sort of information does it request)? Briefly discuss what answers Divine Command Theory provides to these questions.  First Deity & Morality Lecture