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People who use a sensing decision making style see themselves as practical and realistic.

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B) False

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The nominal group technique calls for _____procedural rules.

A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five
E) nine

F) C) and D)
G) B) and C)

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Risk-taking propensity is the willingness to take chances.

The Bay of Pigs in 1960 can be attributable to:

__________ relies on debate between two subgroups that have developed different recommendations based on different assumptions

A confirmation bias leads decision makers to seek information that confirms beliefs and ideas, and avoid seeking disconfirming information.

Discuss and define any three of the cognitive shortcuts/biases that occur in the decision making process and why they occur.

Groups take more time to reach decisions than individuals do because many social needs are met by the group.

Define the concept of groupthink and then discuss how this concept might play a role during a jury's deliberation process.

Vulnerability is one of the symptoms that groupthink might be occurring.

The _______bias is particularly important because it often has strong effects on the type of information gathered.

All of the following are symptoms of groupthink EXCEPT:

The Vroom Yetton method involves _______________ of involvement.

Groups have both advantages and disadvantages in decision making.

Each individual chooses consciously or unconsciously his own reference point in a given situation.

The risky shift process occurs when group members collectively make a more risky choice than most or all of the individuals would have made when working in another group.

Optimal decisions are also referred to as minimizing decisions.

Even though ____is not consistently improved by group decision making, _____is.

People who prefer to rely on their emotions are said to use a _____style.

A _________can be a goal, a minimum acceptable level of performance and it is used to judge one's current standing.