An Idea Turns into a Business Opportunity When

question 31

Multiple Choice

An idea turns into a business opportunity when:

• A)people like the product.
• B)it is a quality product.
• C)it can be made cheaply.
• D)it has commercial potential.

Acknowledge that using resources for one purpose reduces their availability for other purposes.

Learn about the economizing problem of allocating limited resources to satisfy unlimited wants.

Appreciate the role of assumptions in economic modeling and the scientific method in economics.

Understand that personal and societal costs and benefits guide human decisions in predictable ways.

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Definitions:

Dissonance Reduction

The process of reducing psychological discomfort by rationalizing or changing one's attitudes or beliefs to be more consistent with one's actions.

Justification of Effort

The tendency to attribute a higher value to outcomes that require a greater amount of effort to achieve.

Hindsight Bias

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it, also known as the "I-knew-it-all-along" effect.

Overestimate

To assess something as greater, larger, or more important than it actually is.