While It Is Important to Understand That Anthropologists Have Studied

question 54

Multiple Choice

While it is important to understand that anthropologists have studied people who are disadvantaged, to do more requires

• A) basic research to allow us to understand how a condition can be successfully treated.
• B) a great deal of money to be spent within the culture.
• C) nothing, because is could lead to harmful consequences.
• D) comparing them with successful cultures to see what went wrong.

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Definitions:

Recognition Heuristic

A decision-making process where a more recognized option is chosen over the less familiar one, based on the assumption that recognition is correlated with value.

Behavioral Economics

A method of economic analysis that applies psychological insights into human behaviour to explain economic decision-making.

Self-Serving Bias

Self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute positive events to one's own character but attribute negative events to external factors, affecting judgment and decision-making.

Planning Fallacy

The optimistic cognitive bias that leads individuals or teams to underestimate the time, costs, and risks of future actions, while overestimating the benefits.