PSY quiz

Why is it important that your values be objective/quantifiable?

Question 1 options:

Because emotions and subjectivity have no place in a rational decision.

Because it can clarify your thoughts and helps you to evaluate each alternative along the same criteria.

Because it will help you distinguish between instrumental and fundamental values.

Because it will help you detect patterns in randomness.

Question 2 (1 point)

In decisions where you have too many options, what can you do to keep your set of alternatives from becoming unmanageably large?

Question 2 options:

Analysis of resources

Networking

Reversal

Classification

Question 3 (1 point)

Which of the following statements is true:

Question 3 options:

Screening considers only one attribute (one value) at a time.

Screening allows to account for more than one value at a time.

Screening ensures that the same values will be used to evaluate all alternatives.

Screening is most appropriate when a decision involves low processing cost and high uncertainty.

Question 4 (1 point)

According to the book, what is one of the barriers that make causal analyses difficult for us?

Question 4 options:

We tend to think that correlations are causes

We tend to get overly emotional

We have limited working memory capacity

We tend to look for biased information

Question 5 (1 point)

To help spur on more ideas for what career would be best, Perry started thinking about people near her who could help her out. She just performed a quick ______________:

Question 5 options:

SWOT analysis

Resource analysis

Person area search analysis

Contacts analysis

Question 6 (1 point)

What helps you improve your creative thinking? Check all that apply:

Question 6 options:

Decreasing the amount of uncertainty

Shifting responsibility

Creating adequate space and time

Stimulus variation

Question 7 (1 point)

According to the text, there are three specific variations on talking with others as a strategy to increase creative thinking. Which of the following is NOT one of those?

Question 7 options:

The Devil's Advocate

The giant fighter's stratagem

Networking

External memory

Question 8 (1 point)

Which one is NOT a likely reason for our bias to mistake correlations for causations?

Question 8 options:

It may have been adaptive for our ancestors.

It is a less costly mistake to see a cause where there is none, than to NOT see a cause where there is one.

Our ancestors were less likely to die from being too paranoid than from not being paranoid enough.

Seeing patterns in randomness was a more costly mistake for our ancestors than not seeing patterns.

Question 9 (1 point)

Which of the following is NOT an indicator that your working memory may be overloaded? You may experience any of the following EXCEPT:

Question 9 options:

feeling cognitively exhausted

being afraid

repeatedly forgetting important pieces of your decision

feeling confused

Question 10 (1 point)

Which TWO of the following creativity techniques are the most focused techniques to generate alternatives? Check the two that apply.

Question 10 options:

Value-focused search

Creative conversation

Improving or combining good alternatives

Observation, awareness, mindfulness

Question 11 (1 point)

What is the function of weights in decision tables?

Question 11 options:

They allow important values to weigh in more heavily than less important ones.

They make sure that the final rank order is normalized.

They allow us to use numbers in a table to get rid of subjectivity and emotions.

They help us correct for any uncertainties or errors in the raw ratings.

Question 12 (1 point)

You overhear a good friend say: Holy cow I don't know how I'm ever going to get out of debt and my classes are overwhelming me. She's most probably experiencing:

Question 12 options:

Low cognitive conflict

High cognitive conflict

Vacillation

The nature of life

Question 13 (1 point)

Which of the following is NOT a stimulus variation technique?

Question 13 options:

Taking breaks

Observation

Removing clutter

Talking to people

Question 14 (1 point)

Why is it difficult for some people to be creative? (Mark all that apply)

Question 14 options:

Productive creativity requires a certain level of education

Creativity is linked to personality traits that are relatively stable

Creativity is not a prestigious enough trait for people to care

Getting truly creative can take a lot of effort and time

Question 15 (1 point)

Structuring a problem in an open-ended format helps, because _____________ (Mark all that apply):

Question 15 options:

they aren't as difficult to structure as closed questions

open-ended questions ensure more options can be considered

people process open questions more easily

closed questions, while easy to think about, aren't as useful

Question 16 (1 point)

You are doing research for a term project. After a couple weeks of work, you realize that there is a major problem in your data collection, and that it might actually be easier and better for you to start over new. Nevertheless, you decide to stick with your original plan because you have already put in so much work that would otherwise be useless. This is an example of:

Question 16 options:

Value focused thinking

Shifting responsibility

The sunk cost fallacy

Bolstering

Question 17 (1 point)

Which of the following is NOT one of the decision styles from the Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire?

Question 17 options:

Vacillation

Procrastination

Buckpassing

Hyper-vigilance

Question 18 (1 point)

What types of people are especially good to help you explore possible options with?

Question 18 options:

Those high in extraversion

Those high in agreeableness

Those high in openness

Those high in conscientiousness

Question 19 (1 point)

You are constructing a value tree, and you keep finding that several of your values converge on the same spot. This most likely is because:

Question 19 options:

You have too many values, there is not enough room for them all

You are focusing on a means (to an end) rather than on the fundamental value

You have an equal number of divergent branches

Trees are supposed to converge at the same spot, that's how you know your values are consistent

Question 20 (1 point)

Sometimes organizations suffer large losses because a manager is determined to prove that his original decision was correct by continuing to commit resources to a failing project. This is also called:

Question 20 options:

Escalating commitment

The planning fallacy

Information overload

Risk seeking