Decision Makers Construct Simplified Models That Extract the Essential Features

question 6

Multiple Choice

Decision makers construct simplified models that extract the essential features from problems without capturing all their complexity. That is, they operate within the confines of ________.

• A) optimal decision making
• B) intuitive decision making
• C) bounded rationality
• D) rationality
• E) common sense

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Definitions:

Louisiana Purchase

President Thomas Jefferson’s 1803 purchase from France of the important port of New Orleans and 828,000 square miles west of the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains; it more than doubled the territory of the United States at a cost of only $15 million.

Democrats

Members or supporters of the Democratic Party in the United States, one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country, generally representing liberal and progressive positions.

Forty-ninth Parallel

The 49th parallel north, a circle of latitude that is 49 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, often referred to as the boundary between Canada and the United States in the western part of North America.

Northern Whigs

A political faction active in the 19th century United States, which opposed the Democratic Party and supported modernization, the federal bank, and anti-slavery policies.