Author Question: According to the introductory discussion of decision making in Chapter 12, a. researchers in this ... (Read 53 times)

azncindy619 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

According to the introductory discussion of decision making in Chapter 12,

a. researchers in this area come from many other disciplines, in addition to psychology.
b. the research on decision making is usually lower in ecological validity than is the research on logical reasoning.
c. people are less likely to use heuristics when they work on decision-making tasks, rather than on logical-reasoning tasks.
d. like logical reasoning, decision making has a formal set of rules for drawing the correct conclusions.

Question 2

An important difference between reasoning and decision making is that

a. reasoning tasks are more likely to use established rules to reach a conclusion.
b. reasoning tasks are more likely to generate ecologically valid research.
c. decision-making tasks are more likely to emphasize abstract premises.
d. decision-making tasks are more likely to include all the necessary information.