Question 1

What possible error in judgment can come about by the misapplication of the Power Differential Heuristic?

Accepted Answer

Accepting a mistaken opinion,

Question 2

Compare System-1 and System-2 thinking approaches to human decision making and discuss the conflict of the two systems.

Accepted Answer

System-1 processing appears highly react

Question 3

Which cognitive heuristic involves the natural tendency to underestimate one's risks and to overestimate one's ability to manage dangerous situations?

Accepted Answer

A)  illusion of control 
B)  loss and risk aversion 
C)  optimistic bias 
D)  elimination by aspect 
A)  illusion of control 
B)  loss and risk aversion 
C)  optimistic bias 
D)  elimination by aspect

Question 4

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Affect Heuristic?

Accepted Answer

A)  "Brandon is a huge fan of the San Francisco Giants. If he sees anything at all with the SF Giant's logo on it, a shirt, a coffee cup, a banner, you know Brandon is going to want to buy it." 
B)  "There is always another way to tweak the artwork this way or that. But we have to get the marketing materials to the conference soon. So I say that the design is good to go." 
C)  "I never get a flu shot. When I was a kid I had a terrible infection and the doctor gave me a hypo of penicillin right in the butt. Wow did that hurt!" 
D)  "This year two of the people in our office died. One was hit by a drunk driver last summer when he was out biking, and the other had a fatal heart attack while shoveling snow. We all worked in the same office, reported to the same boss, and both of them were about my age. Makes me not want to do anything that is physically exerting." 
E)  "The prosecuting attorney pointed at the accused and said, 'For a man like him, raised in his religious culture, it is a huge dishonor if a wife is not totally subservient to her husband. That is how we know that the defendant is guilty of murder. I say that he is the one who beat his wife to death. His motive was that he thought she had somehow dishonored him." 
A)  "Brandon is a huge fan of the San Francisco Giants. If he sees anything at all with the SF Giant's logo on it, a shirt, a coffee cup, a banner, you know Brandon is going to want to buy it." 
B)  "There is always another way to tweak the artwork this way or that. But we have to get the marketing materials to the conference soon. So I say that the design is good to go." 
C)  "I never get a flu shot. When I was a kid I had a terrible infection and the doctor gave me a hypo of penicillin right in the butt. Wow did that hurt!" 
D)  "This year two of the people in our office died. One was hit by a drunk driver last summer when he was out biking, and the other had a fatal heart attack while shoveling snow. We all worked in the same office, reported to the same boss, and both of them were about my age. Makes me not want to do anything that is physically exerting." 
E)  "The prosecuting attorney pointed at the accused and said, 'For a man like him, raised in his religious culture, it is a huge dishonor if a wife is not totally subservient to her husband. That is how we know that the defendant is guilty of murder. I say that he is the one who beat his wife to death. His motive was that he thought she had somehow dishonored him."

Question 5

What possible error in judgment can come about by the misapplication of the Temporizing Heuristic?

Accepted Answer

Underestimation of the growing

Question 6

Which cognitive heuristic involves estimating the likelihood of a given outcome based on how easy it is to imagine that outcome?

Accepted Answer

A)  representation 
B)  temporizing 
C)  affect 
D)  simulation 
A)  representation 
B)  temporizing 
C)  affect 
D)  simulation

Question 7

What possible error in judgment can come about by the misapplication of the Loss and Risk Aversion Heuristic?

Accepted Answer

Paralysis of decisio

Question 8

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Availability Heuristic?

Accepted Answer

A)  "Brandon is a huge fan of the San Francisco Giants. If he sees anything at all with the SF Giant's logo on it, a shirt, a coffee cup, a banner, you know Brandon is going to want to buy it." 
B)  "There is always another way to tweak the artwork this way or that. But we have to get the marketing materials to the conference soon. So I say that the design is good to go." 
C)  "I never get a flu shot. When I was a kid I had a terrible infection and the doctor gave me a hypo of penicillin right in the butt. Wow did that hurt!" 
D)  "This year two of the people in our office died. One was hit by a drunk driver last summer when he was out biking, and the other had a fatal heart attack while shoveling snow. We all worked in the same office, reported to the same boss, and both of them were about my age. Makes me not want to do anything that is physically exerting." 
E)  "The prosecuting attorney pointed at the accused and said, 'For a man like him, raised in his religious culture, it is a huge dishonor if a wife is not totally subservient to her husband. That is how we know that the defendant is guilty of murder. I say that he is the one who beat his wife to death. His motive was that he thought she had somehow dishonored him." 
A)  "Brandon is a huge fan of the San Francisco Giants. If he sees anything at all with the SF Giant's logo on it, a shirt, a coffee cup, a banner, you know Brandon is going to want to buy it." 
B)  "There is always another way to tweak the artwork this way or that. But we have to get the marketing materials to the conference soon. So I say that the design is good to go." 
C)  "I never get a flu shot. When I was a kid I had a terrible infection and the doctor gave me a hypo of penicillin right in the butt. Wow did that hurt!" 
D)  "This year two of the people in our office died. One was hit by a drunk driver last summer when he was out biking, and the other had a fatal heart attack while shoveling snow. We all worked in the same office, reported to the same boss, and both of them were about my age. Makes me not want to do anything that is physically exerting." 
E)  "The prosecuting attorney pointed at the accused and said, 'For a man like him, raised in his religious culture, it is a huge dishonor if a wife is not totally subservient to her husband. That is how we know that the defendant is guilty of murder. I say that he is the one who beat his wife to death. His motive was that he thought she had somehow dishonored him."

Question 9

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Stereotyping Heuristic?

Accepted Answer

A)  "There are a couple of city cops across the street on foot patrol. Just a couple more bullies in blue uniforms looking to roust some poor homeless dude or bust a couple of brown or black kids with a trumped up drug possession charge." 
B)  "It's one thing for us to serve and protect. That's our oath as police officers. But, hey, when you're out on the streets you got to protect yourself. I mean, it's a combat zone out there. We got stick together, cover each other's six. You know what I mean." 
C)  "When I was just going off to college I used to talk with my Dad about politics. He said the best approach was always to be conservative. So that's what I am." 
D)  "There was a time when I thought that the reason you didn't do your fair share of the housework was because you did not realize that I was your partner, not your mother. But now that you occasionally do the shopping, the laundry, and help with the dinner dishes I realize that you must not think I'm your mother but your maid instead." 
E)  "We did everything right. Everything! It was a useful product. Well designed and well built. We used an outstanding marketing approach. It is just that nobody wanted to buy it. That's not our fault. Nobody can predict what the public will like. The market just was not ready for what we were offering. Nothing we could do about that." 
A)  "There are a couple of city cops across the street on foot patrol. Just a couple more bullies in blue uniforms looking to roust some poor homeless dude or bust a couple of brown or black kids with a trumped up drug possession charge." 
B)  "It's one thing for us to serve and protect. That's our oath as police officers. But, hey, when you're out on the streets you got to protect yourself. I mean, it's a combat zone out there. We got stick together, cover each other's six. You know what I mean." 
C)  "When I was just going off to college I used to talk with my Dad about politics. He said the best approach was always to be conservative. So that's what I am." 
D)  "There was a time when I thought that the reason you didn't do your fair share of the housework was because you did not realize that I was your partner, not your mother. But now that you occasionally do the shopping, the laundry, and help with the dinner dishes I realize that you must not think I'm your mother but your maid instead." 
E)  "We did everything right. Everything! It was a useful product. Well designed and well built. We used an outstanding marketing approach. It is just that nobody wanted to buy it. That's not our fault. Nobody can predict what the public will like. The market just was not ready for what we were offering. Nothing we could do about that."

Question 10

What possible error in judgment can come about by the misapplication of the Simulation Heuristic?

Accepted Answer

Overestimation of on

Question 11

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Us vs. Them Heuristic?

Accepted Answer

A)  "There are a couple of city cops across the street on foot patrol. Just a couple more bullies in blue uniforms looking to roust some poor homeless dude or bust a couple of brown or black kids with a trumped up drug possession charge." 
B)  "It's one thing for us to serve and protect. That's our oath as police officers. But, hey, when you're out on the streets you got to protect yourself. I mean, it's a combat zone out there. We got stick together, cover each other's six. You know what I mean." 
C)  "When I was just going off to college I used to talk with my Dad about politics. He said the best approach was always to be conservative. So that's what I am." 
D)  "There was a time when I thought that the reason you didn't do your fair share of the housework was because you did not realize that I was your partner, not your mother. But now that you occasionally do the shopping, the laundry, and help with the dinner dishes I realize that you must not think I'm your mother but your maid instead." 
E)  "We did everything right. Everything! It was a useful product. Well designed and well built. We used an outstanding marketing approach. It is just that nobody wanted to buy it. That's not our fault. Nobody can predict what the public will like. The market just was not ready for what we were offering. Nothing we could do about that." 
A)  "There are a couple of city cops across the street on foot patrol. Just a couple more bullies in blue uniforms looking to roust some poor homeless dude or bust a couple of brown or black kids with a trumped up drug possession charge." 
B)  "It's one thing for us to serve and protect. That's our oath as police officers. But, hey, when you're out on the streets you got to protect yourself. I mean, it's a combat zone out there. We got stick together, cover each other's six. You know what I mean." 
C)  "When I was just going off to college I used to talk with my Dad about politics. He said the best approach was always to be conservative. So that's what I am." 
D)  "There was a time when I thought that the reason you didn't do your fair share of the housework was because you did not realize that I was your partner, not your mother. But now that you occasionally do the shopping, the laundry, and help with the dinner dishes I realize that you must not think I'm your mother but your maid instead." 
E)  "We did everything right. Everything! It was a useful product. Well designed and well built. We used an outstanding marketing approach. It is just that nobody wanted to buy it. That's not our fault. Nobody can predict what the public will like. The market just was not ready for what we were offering. Nothing we could do about that."

Question 12

The________ heuristic is the tendency to remember successful events as being the result of the decisions one made and actions that one took and past failures as having resulted from bad luck or someone else's mistakes.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The________ heuristic is the tendency to remember...

Question 13

Define the optimistic bias heuristic.

Accepted Answer

The optimistic bias heuristic

Question 14

Explain how critical thinking is self-regulated System-2 thinking.

Accepted Answer

Sytem-2 thinking is useful for judgments

Question 15

The System-2 thinking approach to decision making is reactive, instinctive, quick, and holistic.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Satisficing Heuristic?

Accepted Answer

A)  "Brandon is a huge fan of the San Francisco Giants. If he sees anything at all with the SF Giant's logo on it, a shirt, a coffee cup, a banner, you know Brandon is going to want to buy it." 
B)  "There is always another way to tweak the artwork this way or that. But we have to get the marketing materials to the conference soon. So I say that the design is good to go." 
C)  "I never get a flu shot. When I was a kid I had a terrible infection and the doctor gave me a hypo of penicillin right in the butt. Wow did that hurt!" 
D)  "This year two of the people in our office died. One was hit by a drunk driver last summer when he was out biking, and the other had a fatal heart attack while shoveling snow. We all worked in the same office, reported to the same boss, and both of them were about my age. Makes me not want to do anything that is physically exerting." 
E)  "The prosecuting attorney pointed at the accused and said, 'For a man like him, raised in his religious culture, it is a huge dishonor if a wife is not totally subservient to her husband. That is how we know that the defendant is guilty of murder. I say that he is the one who beat his wife to death. His motive was that he thought she had somehow dishonored him." 
A)  "Brandon is a huge fan of the San Francisco Giants. If he sees anything at all with the SF Giant's logo on it, a shirt, a coffee cup, a banner, you know Brandon is going to want to buy it." 
B)  "There is always another way to tweak the artwork this way or that. But we have to get the marketing materials to the conference soon. So I say that the design is good to go." 
C)  "I never get a flu shot. When I was a kid I had a terrible infection and the doctor gave me a hypo of penicillin right in the butt. Wow did that hurt!" 
D)  "This year two of the people in our office died. One was hit by a drunk driver last summer when he was out biking, and the other had a fatal heart attack while shoveling snow. We all worked in the same office, reported to the same boss, and both of them were about my age. Makes me not want to do anything that is physically exerting." 
E)  "The prosecuting attorney pointed at the accused and said, 'For a man like him, raised in his religious culture, it is a huge dishonor if a wife is not totally subservient to her husband. That is how we know that the defendant is guilty of murder. I say that he is the one who beat his wife to death. His motive was that he thought she had somehow dishonored him."

Question 17

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Stereotyping Heuristic?

Accepted Answer

A)  "Brandon is a huge fan of the San Francisco Giants. If he sees anything at all with the SF Giant's logo on it, a shirt, a coffee cup, a banner, you know Brandon is going to want to buy it." 
B)  "There is always another way to tweak the artwork this way or that. But we have to get the marketing materials to the conference soon. So I say that the design is good to go." 
C)  "I never get a flu shot. When I was a kid I had a terrible infection and the doctor gave me a hypo of penicillin right in the butt. Wow did that hurt!" 
D)  "This year two of the people in our office died. One was hit by a drunk driver last summer when he was out biking, and the other had a fatal heart attack while shoveling snow. We all worked in the same office, reported to the same boss, and both of them were about my age. Makes me not want to do anything that is physically exerting." 
E)  "The prosecuting attorney pointed at the accused and said, 'For a man like him, raised in his religious culture, it is a huge dishonor if a wife is not totally subservient to her husband. That is how we know that the defendant is guilty of murder. I say that he is the one who beat his wife to death. His motive was that he thought she had somehow dishonored him." 
A)  "Brandon is a huge fan of the San Francisco Giants. If he sees anything at all with the SF Giant's logo on it, a shirt, a coffee cup, a banner, you know Brandon is going to want to buy it." 
B)  "There is always another way to tweak the artwork this way or that. But we have to get the marketing materials to the conference soon. So I say that the design is good to go." 
C)  "I never get a flu shot. When I was a kid I had a terrible infection and the doctor gave me a hypo of penicillin right in the butt. Wow did that hurt!" 
D)  "This year two of the people in our office died. One was hit by a drunk driver last summer when he was out biking, and the other had a fatal heart attack while shoveling snow. We all worked in the same office, reported to the same boss, and both of them were about my age. Makes me not want to do anything that is physically exerting." 
E)  "The prosecuting attorney pointed at the accused and said, 'For a man like him, raised in his religious culture, it is a huge dishonor if a wife is not totally subservient to her husband. That is how we know that the defendant is guilty of murder. I say that he is the one who beat his wife to death. His motive was that he thought she had somehow dishonored him."

Question 18

The ________ heuristic involves simplification of decisions by treating remotely probable outcomes as if they were impossible for all practical purposes.

Accepted Answer

A)  elimination of aspect 
B)  all or nothing 
C)  anchoring with adjustment 
D)  stereotyping 
A)  elimination of aspect 
B)  all or nothing 
C)  anchoring with adjustment 
D)  stereotyping

Question 19

When we share our reflective interpretations, analyses, evaluations, and inferences, we are offering explanations. Because of this, critical thinking can be described as ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  an engine of reactive System-1 thinking 
B)  unrelated to decision making 
C)  self-regulated System-2 thinking 
D)  an irrational driver of associational decision making 
A)  an engine of reactive System-1 thinking 
B)  unrelated to decision making 
C)  self-regulated System-2 thinking 
D)  an irrational driver of associational decision making

Question 20

Define the affect heuristic.

Accepted Answer

The affect heuristic influence

What possible error in judgment can come about by the misapplication of the Power Differential Heuristic?

Compare System-1 and System-2 thinking approaches to human decision making and discuss the conflict of the two systems.

Which cognitive heuristic involves the natural tendency to underestimate one's risks and to overestimate one's ability to manage dangerous situations?

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Affect Heuristic?

What possible error in judgment can come about by the misapplication of the Temporizing Heuristic?

Which cognitive heuristic involves estimating the likelihood of a given outcome based on how easy it is to imagine that outcome?

What possible error in judgment can come about by the misapplication of the Loss and Risk Aversion Heuristic?

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Availability Heuristic?

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Stereotyping Heuristic?

What possible error in judgment can come about by the misapplication of the Simulation Heuristic?

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Us vs. Them Heuristic?

The________ heuristic is the tendency to remember successful events as being the result of the decisions one made and actions that one took and past failures as having resulted from bad luck or someone else's mistakes.

Define the optimistic bias heuristic.

Explain how critical thinking is self-regulated System-2 thinking.

The System-2 thinking approach to decision making is reactive, instinctive, quick, and holistic.

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Satisficing Heuristic?

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Stereotyping Heuristic?

The ________ heuristic involves simplification of decisions by treating remotely probable outcomes as if they were impossible for all practical purposes.

When we share our reflective interpretations, analyses, evaluations, and inferences, we are offering explanations. Because of this, critical thinking can be described as ________.

Define the affect heuristic.

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Clarify Ideas and Concepts

Analyze Arguments and Diagram Decisions

Evaluate the Credibility of Claims and Sources

Evaluate Arguments: Four Basic Tests

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Warranted Inferences

Reflective Decision Making

Comparative Reasoning

Ideological Reasoning

Empirical Reasoning

Write Sound and Effective Arguments

Ethical Decision Making

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Exam 10: Snap Judgments:risks and Benefits of Heuristic Thinking

What possible error in judgment can come about by the misapplication of the Power Differential Heuristic?

Compare System-1 and System-2 thinking approaches to human decision making and discuss the conflict of the two systems.

Which cognitive heuristic involves the natural tendency to underestimate one's risks and to overestimate one's ability to manage dangerous situations?

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Affect Heuristic?

What possible error in judgment can come about by the misapplication of the Temporizing Heuristic?

Which cognitive heuristic involves estimating the likelihood of a given outcome based on how easy it is to imagine that outcome?

What possible error in judgment can come about by the misapplication of the Loss and Risk Aversion Heuristic?

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Availability Heuristic?

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Stereotyping Heuristic?

What possible error in judgment can come about by the misapplication of the Simulation Heuristic?

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Us vs. Them Heuristic?

The________ heuristic is the tendency to remember successful events as being the result of the decisions one made and actions that one took and past failures as having resulted from bad luck or someone else's mistakes.

Define the optimistic bias heuristic.

Explain how critical thinking is self-regulated System-2 thinking.

The System-2 thinking approach to decision making is reactive, instinctive, quick, and holistic.

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Satisficing Heuristic?

Which of the following is probably an expression of the influence of the Stereotyping Heuristic?

The ________ heuristic involves simplification of decisions by treating remotely probable outcomes as if they were impossible for all practical purposes.

When we share our reflective interpretations, analyses, evaluations, and inferences, we are offering explanations. Because of this, critical thinking can be described as ________.

Define the affect heuristic.

The Power of Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking Mindset and Skills

Solve Problems and Succeed in College

Clarify Ideas and Concepts

Analyze Arguments and Diagram Decisions

Evaluate the Credibility of Claims and Sources

Evaluate Arguments: Four Basic Tests

Valid Inferences

Warranted Inferences

Reflective Decision Making

Comparative Reasoning

Ideological Reasoning

Empirical Reasoning

Write Sound and Effective Arguments

Ethical Decision Making

The Logic of Declarative Statements

Critical Thinking in the Social Sciences

Critical Thinking in the Natural Sciences

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