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Decision Making MCQ

Making decisions together with others can be easier because it allows you to __________.

Seek advice from others about the decision

Collaborate with others on various factors influencing the decision

Gain new perspectives about the decision

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Seek advice from others about the decision

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Positive support mechanisms after a loss include __________.

Religious rituals

Blaming yourself for the loss

Family and friends

Both A and C

Answer

Correct Answer: Both A and C

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The first step in preparing successful marketing and sales messages is ____________________.

Analyzing audience needs

Positive and polite language

Assessing audience needs

Motivating action

Answer

Correct Answer: Motivating action

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One fundamental difference between a process chart and a process map is that __________.

Process focus, repetitive focus, and product focus

Separation, self-service, automation, and scheduling

Total costs for one process equal total costs for another process

The process chart is more like a table, while the process map is more like a schematic diagram

Answer

Correct Answer: The process chart is more like a table, while the process map is more like a schematic diagram

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In order to compare and evaluate choices, there must be a set of ______.

Resources

Decisions

Consequences

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: None of the above

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What is the definition of evaluation?

Making a decision

Making a prediction

Making a judgment

Putting a number to a judgment, not necessarily a preference judgment, e.g., assessing a probability.

Answer

Correct Answer: Putting a number to a judgment, not necessarily a preference judgment, e.g., assessing a probability.

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What is the equivalent substitute of "assessor"?

Evaluate

Equate

Criticize

Appraise

Answer

Correct Answer: Equate

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What does enhancement mean?

Making things bigger

Judgment made more rational.

More of something

Something added

Answer

Correct Answer: Judgment made more rational.

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What does the enhancement of judgment mean?

Decisions made without thinking

Decisions made randomly

Decisions made by emotions

More rational decisions

Answer

Correct Answer: More rational decisions

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What is emulation?

Something that is copied from an original

A way to improve something

Aid that mimics some expert's judgment

Imitation of another person

Answer

Correct Answer: Aid that mimics some expert's judgment

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What is the name given to decisions that have an accepted way to generate and analyze information for decision-making purposes?

Empirical decisions

Experimental decisions

Research-based decisions

Rational decisions

Answer

Correct Answer: Empirical decisions

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What is an empirical decision?

A decision based solely on emotion

Information-poor decision that has an accepted way to generate and analyze information for decision-making purposes.

A decision made with plenty of information

A decision made with absolutely no information

Answer

Correct Answer: Information-poor decision that has an accepted way to generate and analyze information for decision-making purposes.

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If emotions are not effectively managed, what will happen?

They can prevent a conflict

They can resolve a conflict

They have no effect

They can intensify a conflict

Answer

Correct Answer: They can intensify a conflict

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What is emotional inoculation?

A method of birth control.

A device used to measure emotions.

A term used to describe when someone is overly emotional.

A technique used to reduce stakeholders’ fears about decision outcomes over which they have no control.

Answer

Correct Answer: A technique used to reduce stakeholders’ fears about decision outcomes over which they have no control.

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What is elimination by aspects?

A strategy in business

A technique used with multicriteria to speed decision making in short-fuse situations.

A game

A method of cooking

Answer

Correct Answer: A technique used with multicriteria to speed decision making in short-fuse situations.

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What is the purpose of an elicitor?

To determine one's own judgment

To determine someone else's judgment

To make a judgment oneself

To provide someone else's judgment

Answer

Correct Answer: To determine someone else's judgment

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What is an Elicitor?

A person who is not easily influenced

Determines someone else's judgment, e.g., of uncertainty or preference.

A person who is easily influenced

A person who is very assertive.

Answer

Correct Answer: Determines someone else's judgment, e.g., of uncertainty or preference.

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What distinguishes between decision nodes and chance nodes?

There is no difference between decision nodes and chance nodes

Chance nodes have options which branch off

Decision nodes have options which branch off while chance nodes have states which are associated with alternative decisions

Decision nodes have states which are associated with alternative decisions

Answer

Correct Answer: Decision nodes have options which branch off while chance nodes have states which are associated with alternative decisions

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What are the nodes from which decision options branch off called in a decision tree?

Decision nodes

Payoff nodes

Chance nodes

Environmental nodes

Answer

Correct Answer: Decision nodes

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What does Decision Tree refer to?

A tree that is cut down and used for lumber

The process of making a decision

A fully connected network without circuits

The use of the network-theoretical concept of tree to the uncertainty-related structuring of decision options

Answer

Correct Answer: The use of the network-theoretical concept of tree to the uncertainty-related structuring of decision options

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What is Decision Tree Analysis?

A method for evaluating how users make decisions in performing their tasks

A resource for identifying user needs

A tool for designing user tasks

A method for optimizing decision-making performance

Answer

Correct Answer: A method for evaluating how users make decisions in performing their tasks

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What is the best possible consequence of the maxmin rule?

The worst possible consequence of the chosen alternative is worse than the best possible consequence of any other alternative.

There is no best or worst possible consequence of the maxmin rule.

The worst possible consequence of the chosen alternative is better than the best possible consequence of any other alternative.

The maxmin rule does not take into account the best possible consequence of any alternative.

Answer

Correct Answer: The worst possible consequence of the chosen alternative is better than the best possible consequence of any other alternative.

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What is the main focus of decision theory?

To reveal preferences and introduce them into models of decision

To design alternatives

To assess the consequences

To define objectives

Answer

Correct Answer: To reveal preferences and introduce them into models of decision

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What is the difference between decision under risk and decision under uncertainty?

Decision under uncertainty is when the probability distributions are known.

When the probability distributions are unknown, one speaks about decision under uncertainty.

Decision under risk is when the probability distributions are unknown.

Answer

Correct Answer: When the probability distributions are unknown, one speaks about decision under uncertainty.

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What is a Decision Support System?

A computer based system that helps the decision maker utilize data and models to solve unstructured problems.

A system that utilizes data and models to solve unstructured problems

A computer based system that helps the decision maker solve unstructured problems.

A system that helps managers make decisions

Answer

Correct Answer: A computer based system that helps the decision maker utilize data and models to solve unstructured problems.

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What is a decision rule?

Event that is set in advance for making a prospective decision.

Procedure that is set in advance for making a retrospective decision.

Procedure that is set in advance for making a prospective decision, in the event of a specified development.

Development that occurs without a specified procedure.

Answer

Correct Answer: Procedure that is set in advance for making a prospective decision, in the event of a specified development.

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What is the role of the decider in relation to the decision?

The decider is responsible for making the decision.

The decider is responsible for carrying out the decision.

The decider is responsible for monitoring the decision-making process.

The decider is responsible for informing the decision-maker of the decision.

Answer

Correct Answer: The decider is responsible for making the decision.

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What is the decision making process?

The decision making process is the process that is used to make a decision.

The decision making process is used to make a decision.

The decision making process is the process of making a decision

The decision making process is a process that is used to make a decision

Answer

Correct Answer: The decision making process is the process that is used to make a decision.

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What is a decision maker?

A person who makes the final choice without considering others.

A person who makes the first choice among the alternatives.

A person who makes the final choice among the alternatives.

A person who makes the choices for others.

Answer

Correct Answer: A person who makes the final choice among the alternatives.

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What is the correct definition of a decision level?

A level corresponds to increases in the complexity of decisions, as assumptions about future conditions become more clear.

A level corresponds to decreases in the complexity of decisions, as assumptions about future conditions become more ambiguous.

A level corresponds to increases in the complexity of decisions, as assumptions about future conditions become more ambiguous.

A level corresponds to decreases in the complexity of decisions, as assumptions about future conditions become more clear.

Answer

Correct Answer: A level corresponds to increases in the complexity of decisions, as assumptions about future conditions become more ambiguous.

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What is the definition of a "decision level"?

A method of making decisions that is based on past experience and knowledge.

A level that corresponds to increases in the complexity of decisions, as assumptions about future conditions become more ambiguous.

A decision made by a group of people

The process of making a decision

Answer

Correct Answer: A level that corresponds to increases in the complexity of decisions, as assumptions about future conditions become more ambiguous.

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What is the purpose of decision analysis?

To make decisions quickly

To promote insight that leads to learning

To make the best decision possible

To reduce stress

Answer

Correct Answer: To promote insight that leads to learning

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What is a decision aider?

A software that helps in the decision-making process

A device that assists in making decisions

A person who helps carry out the decision

A person who provides aid to the decision-maker

Answer

Correct Answer: A person who provides aid to the decision-maker

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What is the main purpose of a decision aider?

Gathers information for the decision-maker.

Analyzes data for the decision-maker.

Provides decision analyst or other aid to decision-maker.

Makes decisions for the decision-maker.

Answer

Correct Answer: Provides decision analyst or other aid to decision-maker.

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What does a decision aid do?

Help with decision-maker by providing some shelter to the decision problem.

Help with decision-maker by providing some money to the decision problem.

Help with decision-maker by providing some insight to the decision problem.

Help with decision-maker by providing some food to the decision problem.

Answer

Correct Answer: Help with decision-maker by providing some insight to the decision problem.

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What is the definition of a "decider"?

Person responsible for committing resources.

Person responsible for making choices.

Person who makes choices.

Person responsible for making choices and committing resources.

Answer

Correct Answer: Person responsible for making choices and committing resources.

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What is the meaning of "current decision"?

A decision that does not need to be made now.

A decision that has already been made.

A decision that will be made in the future.

A decision that needs to be made now, before learning anything new.

Answer

Correct Answer: A decision that needs to be made now, before learning anything new.

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What is a culminating prospect?

The last stage in a project

A sudden large decrease

Possible places that an incremental commitment strategy may lead to.

The final stage in a product's life cycle

Answer

Correct Answer: Possible places that an incremental commitment strategy may lead to.

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What does the word "criterion" mean?

A rule or standard by which to rank the alternatives in order of desirability

The act of judging

The result of judging

A problem that needs to be solved

Answer

Correct Answer: A rule or standard by which to rank the alternatives in order of desirability

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What does criterion score mean?

The highest score that can be given to a criterion or attribute.

A score that is assigned to a criterion or attribute.

To assign a score to a criterion or attribute.

A score that is based on a specific set of criteria.

Answer

Correct Answer: To assign a score to a criterion or attribute.

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What is the definition for 'Criterion Domain'?

The range of values for a particular criterion

The act of judging

The proxy measure selected to capture a criterion, such as a morale survey that is used to measure satisfaction.

A set of data on which a judgment or decision may be based

Answer

Correct Answer: The proxy measure selected to capture a criterion, such as a morale survey that is used to measure satisfaction.

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What is a criterion domain?

The sampling method

The proxy measure selected to capture a criterion

A method of measurement

The actual criterion being measured

Answer

Correct Answer: The proxy measure selected to capture a criterion

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What does the term "Criteria" mean in the context of making comparisons?

The necessity of making a comparison among alternatives

The result of making a comparison among alternatives

The process of making a comparison among alternatives

The means used to make a comparison among alternatives

Answer

Correct Answer: The means used to make a comparison among alternatives

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What is the definition of criteria?

The means used to make a comparison among alternatives such as cost and quality.

A set of rules or guidelines

A guideline used in art criticism

The process of making judgments based on standards

Answer

Correct Answer: The means used to make a comparison among alternatives such as cost and quality.

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What does "criteria weight" mean?

A quantitative value that specifies the relative important criteria.

A quantitative value that specifies the absolute important criteria.

A quantitative value that specifies the relative unimportant criteria.

A qualitative value that specifies the relative important criteria.

Answer

Correct Answer: A quantitative value that specifies the relative important criteria.

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What does "covaries" mean?

Unrelated to

Depends on

Relevant to

Varies with

Answer

Correct Answer: Depends on

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What does Cost-benefit Analysis assess?

The amount of money an intervention saves

Whether the cost of an intervention is worth the benefit

The number of people an intervention benefits

The amount of money an intervention costs

Answer

Correct Answer: Whether the cost of an intervention is worth the benefit

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What is the definition for "core problem"?

A problem that is not essential

A problem that is easily solved

The most important and most central problem provoking action, which can be difficult to identify.

A problem that is unimportant

Answer

Correct Answer: The most important and most central problem provoking action, which can be difficult to identify.

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What is the Core model?

A model that is not concerned with the target evaluation.

A detailed model that addresses the target evaluation indirectly.

A coarse model addressing the target evaluation directly.

A model that is only concerned with the target evaluation.

Answer

Correct Answer: A coarse model addressing the target evaluation directly.

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What is a contributor?

A type of data that is gathered in an experiment

Attribute of interest because it influences some criterion but is not itself a criterion.

The process of making observations in order to collect data

Helps to establish a pattern in research

Answer

Correct Answer: Attribute of interest because it influences some criterion but is not itself a criterion.

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What is the main purpose of a consultant?

To provide information to an individual, group or organization.

To create a knowledge base for an individual, group or organization.

To provide professional advise relating to a decision problem of an individual, group or organization.

To make decisions for an individual, group or organization.

Answer

Correct Answer: To provide professional advise relating to a decision problem of an individual, group or organization.

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What is a constraint?

A value function that must be optimized

The overall budgeted dollar amount for a department

A situation that must be taken into consideration when formulating a business plan

A mathematical representation of some situational factors that must be taken into consideration when optimizing a value function

Answer

Correct Answer: A mathematical representation of some situational factors that must be taken into consideration when optimizing a value function

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What is the definition of a constituent?

Stakeholder

Interested party on whose behalf decision-maker is expected to act

Decision-maker

Someone who provides financial support

Answer

Correct Answer: Interested party on whose behalf decision-maker is expected to act

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What are conspicuous alternatives?

Ways of responding to core problems that arise late in a decision process

Traditional or habitual ways of responding to core problems that arise early in a decision process.

Ways of responding to peripheral problems that arise early in a decision process

Ways of responding to core problems that arise early in an implementation process

Answer

Correct Answer: Traditional or habitual ways of responding to core problems that arise early in a decision process.

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What are the consequences of a decision-maker's actions?

They might be any defined outcomes or undefined outcomes.

Ill-defined.

They might be any defined outcomes or ill-defined.

They might be any defined outcomes.

Answer

Correct Answer: They might be any defined outcomes or ill-defined.

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What is conflict?

A psychological state characterized by anxiety or fear

A fight or battle

Disagreement among people with different interests, views, or agendas, causing emotional disturbance and stress.

A feeling of anger, resentment, or hostility

Answer

Correct Answer: Disagreement among people with different interests, views, or agendas, causing emotional disturbance and stress.

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What is probability based on knowledge of other events called?

Prior probability

Conditional probability

Base rate

Market probability

Answer

Correct Answer: Conditional probability

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What is conditional probability?

Given some specified possibility based on ignorance of other events.

Given some specified possibility based on randomness of other events.

Given some specified possibility based on knowledge of other events.

Given some specified certainty based on knowledge of other events.

Answer

Correct Answer: Given some specified possibility based on knowledge of other events.

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What are the building blocks of theories?

Concepts

Abstractions

Theorems

Propositions

Answer

Correct Answer: Concepts

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What is Comprehensive coherence?

Decision maker judgments are partially rational.

Decision maker judgments are fully irrational.

Decision maker judgments are not logically consistent; he/she is not fully rational.

Decision maker judgments are logically consistent; he/she is fully rational.

Answer

Correct Answer: Decision maker judgments are logically consistent; he/she is fully rational.

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What does "complex model" mean?

A model that is simple.

A model that is difficult to understand.

A model with an elaborate structure.

A model that is not well-defined.

Answer

Correct Answer: A model with an elaborate structure.

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What is the process of changing the value of a variable in a model called?

Econometrics

Mathematical optimization

Comparative statics

Regression analysis

Answer

Correct Answer: Comparative statics

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What does the word "coherent" mean?

Scattered

Obeys logical rules of consistency.

Lacking organization

Gibberish

Answer

Correct Answer: Obeys logical rules of consistency.

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What is a coarse model?

A model with simpler structure

A model with a more complex structure

A model that is not well-defined

A model with a coarser grain

Answer

Correct Answer: A model with simpler structure

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What does Clairvoyance refer to?

Having Clairaudience

Having precognition

Having the ability to see the future

Having perfect information

Answer

Correct Answer: Having perfect information

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What does it mean to have perfect information?

Knowing everything about a situation

Having a sense about the future

Knowing more than others

Knowing the future

Answer

Correct Answer: Knowing everything about a situation

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What is an example of a civic decision?

A government policy

A private issue

A business decision

A personal decision

Answer

Correct Answer: A government policy

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What is the process of selecting among identified options called?

Deciding

Selecting

Optioning

Choice

Answer

Correct Answer: Choice

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What is Choice?

Something that is required

A difficult decision

Selecting among identified options, a phase of the decision process.

The best option

Answer

Correct Answer: Selecting among identified options, a phase of the decision process.

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What does a "Choice Fork" represent?

The point at which a project branches

Decision point in a process flow

A type of software testing

Branches are options, i.e., act fork.

Answer

Correct Answer: Branches are options, i.e., act fork.

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What is a certainty equivalent?

A gamble with known probability

Single quantity, judgmentally equated to a gamble, i.e., certainty equivalent in construction of a utility function.

A situation where all outcomes are known in advance

A set of values that are related by an equation

Answer

Correct Answer: Single quantity, judgmentally equated to a gamble, i.e., certainty equivalent in construction of a utility function.

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One factor that can contribute to the production or prevention of another is known as a:

Contributing factor

Causal factor

Correlation

Factor

Answer

Correct Answer: Causal factor

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What is the relationship between variables called?

Correlation

Association

Causality

Regression

Answer

Correct Answer: Causality

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What is the name of the statistical concept that is described in the text?

Casual Dependence

One-Way Causation

Reverse Casual Dependence

Two-Way Causation

Answer

Correct Answer: Casual Dependence

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What is Casual Dependence?

Variation that is not directionless

Variation that is related

Co-variation where direction matters to determine the influence.

Variation that is not related

Answer

Correct Answer: Co-variation where direction matters to determine the influence.

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What does casual attributes mean?

A sudden short attack of an illness or fever

The state or quality of being fashionable

The act of creating or producing something

The assignment of causes to outcomes or events that are observed.

Answer

Correct Answer: The assignment of causes to outcomes or events that are observed.

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What does the word "Binary" mean?

Having one possibility

Having three possibilities

Having two possibilities

Having four possibilities

Answer

Correct Answer: Having two possibilities

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What is Bias?

Partiality or prejudice in interpreting information and applying it to a decision situation.

A set of practices followed by an organization to promote customer satisfaction.

The misalignment of goals and objectives within an organization.

The inability to make decisions in a timely fashion.

Answer

Correct Answer: Partiality or prejudice in interpreting information and applying it to a decision situation.

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What is behavioral economics?

The study of how humans interact with their environment

The study of how humans learn from their mistakes

The study of how humans interact with one another

A description of how decision makers act when making decisions without the aid of normative tactics.

Answer

Correct Answer: A description of how decision makers act when making decisions without the aid of normative tactics.

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What is the alternative name for "Behavioral"?

Normative

Discrete

Descriptive

Tactical

Answer

Correct Answer: Descriptive

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What is a bad decision?

A decision that is made without considering all of the options.

A decision that leads to an unfavorable outcome.

A decision that does not take into account the possible consequences.

A failure to deal with a foreseeable event.

Answer

Correct Answer: A failure to deal with a foreseeable event.

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What is background knowledge?

The knowledge we have about something that is not important

In addition to any specified recent knowledge.

All the knowledge we have about something

The knowledge we have about something that we are not currently thinking about

Answer

Correct Answer: In addition to any specified recent knowledge.

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What is the average value?

The value that occurs most frequently.

The sum of the possible values multiplied by the probability.

The most probable value.

The value that is most likely to occur.

Answer

Correct Answer: The sum of the possible values multiplied by the probability.

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What is the availability heuristic?

A method used to calculate probability

A way to reduce cognitive load

A rule of thumb that is used to acquire information in which easily accessible information is treated as diagnostic.

A way of simplifying decision-making

Answer

Correct Answer: A rule of thumb that is used to acquire information in which easily accessible information is treated as diagnostic.

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What is an attribute?

A quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something.

The action or power of communicating something.

A number of employees working together in the same place.

Any property, descriptive or prescriptive, of possibility distinction.

Answer

Correct Answer: Any property, descriptive or prescriptive, of possibility distinction.

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What is an assessor?

A person who makes an official estimate of the value of something

A person who carries out an inspection in order to gather information

Someone who assesses the value of property for taxation

Judger of a factual possibility based on empirical frequency function.

Answer

Correct Answer: Judger of a factual possibility based on empirical frequency function.

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What does assessment updating refer to?

Updating a assessment based on new evidence

Bayesian updating of prior to obtain the posterior probabilities

Use of Bayes theorem to revise a probability, based on new evidence

Using Bayes theorem to update a assessment

Answer

Correct Answer: Bayesian updating of prior to obtain the posterior probabilities

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What does Arena refer to in the context of decision making?

The end result of a decision

The amount of time spent on a decision

The context in which a decision is made that captures background and motivating information that characterize a decision

The people involved in a decision

Answer

Correct Answer: The context in which a decision is made that captures background and motivating information that characterize a decision

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What is an arbitrary assumption?

A value or probability that is realistic

An assignment of value or probability that is realistic

A value or probability that is convenient

An assignment of value or probability, without reference to its realism, e.g., for analytic convenience.

Answer

Correct Answer: An assignment of value or probability, without reference to its realism, e.g., for analytic convenience.

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What is the approximate equivalent of the phrase "substitute close enough to be useful"?

Precise equivalent

Approximate equivalent

Exact equivalent

Actual equivalent

Answer

Correct Answer: Approximate equivalent

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What does "approximate equivalent" mean?

MultipleChoice equivalent

Roughly equivalent

Substitute close enough to be useful.

Perfectly equivalent

Answer

Correct Answer: Substitute close enough to be useful.

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What is the Anchor effect?

The tendency to underestimate the amount of time it will take to complete a task.

The tendency to overestimate one's ability to complete a task.

The failure to make adjustments after the initial estimate has been proved incorrect.

The tendency for an individual to rely too heavily on pre-existing information.

Answer

Correct Answer: The failure to make adjustments after the initial estimate has been proved incorrect.

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What does it mean to analyze?

To gather information

To study

To break into component parts and study those parts to gain a better understanding of the whole.

To understand

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Correct Answer: To break into component parts and study those parts to gain a better understanding of the whole.

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How many steps are there in the analytical decision process?

Answer

Correct Answer: 4

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What does the process of analysis involve?

Combining the effects of each component.

Making estimates for each component.

Separating or breaking up the component parts needed to value alternatives.

Determining the value of alternatives.

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Correct Answer: Separating or breaking up the component parts needed to value alternatives.

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What does ambiguity refer to?

The inability to characterize or describe important aspects of a decision

The inability to make decisions

The ability to characterize or describe important aspects of a decision

The ability to make decisions

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Correct Answer: The inability to characterize or describe important aspects of a decision

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What is ambiguity?

Ambiguity is a decision making technique.

The ability to characterized or describe important aspects of a decision.

Ambiguity is a state of being confused or unsure about something.

The inability to characterized or describe important aspects of a decision.

Answer

Correct Answer: The inability to characterized or describe important aspects of a decision.

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What is the definition of an "alternative"?

Attaining the objectives.

One of the mutually exclusive courses of action attaining the objectives.

Differing in their nature or character, not only in quantitative details.

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Correct Answer: One of the mutually exclusive courses of action attaining the objectives.

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What is an aiding method?

A tool that helps with math.

A device that helps with decisions.

A way to make decisions easier.

A Variation of a decision tool.

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Correct Answer: A Variation of a decision tool.

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What is an additive component?

A medical procedure

A device

Something that is not essential

Elements of a quantity, e.g. utility partitioned into additive criteria.

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Correct Answer: Elements of a quantity, e.g. utility partitioned into additive criteria.

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What is the opposite of hypothetical judgment?

Theoretical judgment

Actual judgment

Hypothetical judgment

Practical judgment

Answer

Correct Answer: Actual judgment

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What is actor learning?

Determining the accuracy of information offered by experts in a decision process

Making decisions based on emotions

Blindly trusting what experts say

Going with your gut feeling

Answer

Correct Answer: Determining the accuracy of information offered by experts in a decision process

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What is the main focus of active listening?

The emotions and feelings underlying the message

What the other person is saying

To ensure understanding is accurate

Listening

Answer

Correct Answer: What the other person is saying

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What does "action" mean?

The process of doing something, especially something that requires effort or determination

Committing resources, usually following a choice.

Plans or preparations for a future event

A thing that is done, especially an instance of brutal or daring behavior

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Correct Answer: Committing resources, usually following a choice.

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What is action learning?

Learning focused on the present

Learning focused on outcomes and the future conditions that should have been foreseeable and that produced these outcomes

Learning focused on the past

Learning focused on the future

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Correct Answer: Learning focused on outcomes and the future conditions that should have been foreseeable and that produced these outcomes

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