An Optimal Decision Is One That Chooses

question 49

Multiple Choice

An optimal decision is one that chooses

• A)the most desirable alternative among the possibilities permitted by the resources available.
• B)the lowest cost method of meeting goals, without regard to quality or any other feature.
• C)among various possible goals and offends no one, so that all are equally happy.
• D)among equally important goals, and thereby avoids the "indispensable necessity" syndrome.
• E)among possible goals in such a way that spends as little money as possible.

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Definitions:

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic approach developed by Freud that aims to explore unconscious conflicts and desires influencing behavior.

Moral Anxiety

Anxiety that arises from internal conflicts between what one wants to do and what one considers to be the right or moral action to take.

Psychoanalytic Theory

A theory developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes unconscious processes and childhood experiences as the primary factors in personality development and psychological issues.

Internalized

The process of integrating attitudes, values, or norms into one's own belief system or behavior.