The Cognitive Process of Deciding Who or What Caused an Event

question 12

Multiple Choice

The cognitive process of deciding who or what caused an event is:

• A)attribution.
• B)balance theory.
• C)cognitive dissonance.
• D)confirmation bias.

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Definitions:

Specific Risk

A type of risk that affects a very small number of assets, such as a single stock or sector, also known as unsystematic or idiosyncratic risk.

Beta

In finance, it's a measure of the volatility, or systematic risk, of a security or a portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole. In statistics, it refers to the second type of error in a hypothesis test.

Regression Models

Statistical models used to estimate the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables.

Extrapolated

The process of estimating beyond the original observation range by assuming that existing trends continue.