Based on the ethical decision-making model, which component of ethical decision-making best explains student cheating: moral awareness, moral judgment, or moral intent? Why? Moral awareness is the ability to detect and appreciate the ethical aspects of a decision that one must make. Moral judgment is the conclusion that a person reaches about the ethical quality of something or someone. Moral intent is the desire to act ethically when facing a decision and overcome the rationalization to not be ethical "this time.