Decision-Making quiz

More questions about Decision-Making

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1. 1 Easy

   Which thinking system handles slow, deliberate decisions?

   Answer: System 2

   Why: Kahneman borrowed the System 1 and System 2 labels from psychologists Keith Stanovich and Richard West for his 2011 bestseller.

2. 2 Medium

   Why do people believe vague personality test results describe them personally?

   Answer: Subjective validation

   Why: The statements are written to fit almost anyone, and the reader supplies the specifics without noticing.

3. 3 Hard

   Which strategy picks the one option you recognise when the other is unknown?

   Answer: Recognition heuristic

   Why: It applies only when recognition splits the pair, and knowing less can genuinely produce better guesses when ignorance is informative.

4. 4 Easy

   Why do people overestimate how much others notice their appearance or flaws?

   Answer: Spotlight effect

   Why: Everyone is the centre of their own view and the edge of everyone else's, which is where the mismatch comes from.

5. 5 Medium

   How does seeing a successful peer motivate us to improve ourselves?

   Answer: Benign envy

   Why: It aims at lifting yourself up to their level rather than at pulling them down to yours.

6. 6 Hard

   Why do people prefer a gamble with known odds over unknown odds?

   Answer: Ambiguity aversion

   Why: A known bad chance is still knowable, and people will pay to avoid not knowing what the odds even are.