Imagine you are the CEO of a firm that succeeds only if its employees avoid relying on cognitive shortcuts. How would you go about encouraging people to be more accurate in their judgments?
What strategies would you teach them? What types of people would you hire if you want them to be motivated to avoid cognitive shortcuts?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: To facilitate accuracy, create interdependence, provide sufficient time, and provide clear instructions and information. Strategies include encouraging the consideration of alternatives, assigning a devil's advocate, searching for disconfirming evidence. For types, look for low need for structure and high need for cognition.
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a. Elena: "According to a survey, more than 90% of US residents said that media coverage had emphasized the serious problem of domestic violence.". b. Sunita: "Outside of North America and parts of Western Europe, television stations and newspapers never even mention the abuse of women.". c. Jon: "The media information about the abuse of women is so consistently misleading that it would be better for the media to ignore the problem.". d. Alexander: "Because the abuse of women is such an invisible topic in the media, less than half of the states in the US actually have laws that forbid it.".
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a. a clinician is responsible for the appropriateness of an analysis even if a computer supplied the interpretation. b. software companies that supply computerized diagnosis are responsible for the content of the interpretation. c. clinicians and software companies are equally responsible for the diagnosis provided by a computer program. d. clinicians are not responsible for the content of a computerized diagnosis.
Which maternal behavior places an infant at risk for sudden infant death syndrome?
a. Smoking cigarettes b. Alcohol consumption c. Exposure to rubella d. Using Thalidomide