You Are Part of a Group, Making a Decision About

question 94

Multiple Choice

You are part of a group, making a decision about whether it is appropriate to discontinue research on a new drug. This new drug would save lives, but it is uncertain whether you can develop it within a reasonable time frame and at a reasonable cost. Your firm has already spent a small fortune on this drug. You have gathered so much information in preparation to making the decision that you are unable to sort the good information from the superfluous data. You just feel that this project has merit. What form of decision making are you using if you decide to continue the project because you feel that the project has merit?

• A) optimization
• B) intuitive
• C) rational
• D) satisficing
• E) bounded rationality

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Definitions:

Visual Field

The visual field comprises the total area in which objects can be seen in the peripheral vision while the eye is focused on a central point.

Split-Brain

A condition, typically resulting from surgery to treat severe epilepsy, in which the connection between the two hemispheres of the brain is severed.

Corpus Callosum

The large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them.

Left Visual Field

The left visual field is the part of the environment that is visible to the left eye when looking straight ahead, involving the processing of visual information mainly by the right hemisphere of the brain.