Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions

question 44

Multiple Choice

Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions
Case 11-1
Luca is the database administrator for a city parks and recreation department.  The department routinely uses community college interns to process applications and registration for the department's programs. It is important that the user interface minimize user input errors as much as possible.
-After creating the message control using VBA, which property of the control must be coded to display the message "Email the participant with the start date of the program"?

• A)Caption
• B)Text
• C)Special Effect
• D)Statement

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Definitions:

Functional Fixedness

A cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used, hindering problem-solving abilities.

Confirmation Bias

The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Base-Rate Information

Statistical information about the relative frequency of events or characteristics within a given population.