A Member of a Project Team Has Recently Experienced a Computer

question 14

Multiple Choice

A member of a project team has recently experienced a computer system failure that shut down his previous company's operations for a week. He directs the team's attention to this possibility on a new project and becomes concerned that the team is not taking this risk as seriously as he is. Although he might be correct to be so concerned, he also might be subject to which of the following biases?

• A) Gambler's fallacy
• B) Availability heuristics
• C) Risky shift
• D) Conjunctive event bias
• E) High anxiety bias

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Definitions:

Text Messaging

The act of sending brief, electronic messages between two or more mobile devices.

SMS

Short Messaging Service, a text messaging service component of most telephone, internet, and mobile-device systems.

MMS

Multimedia Messaging Service, a standard way to send multimedia content via mobile phones.

Cellular Network

A wireless communication network distributed over land areas called cells, each served by at least one fixed-location transceiver, for mobile phones and data transfer.