Question 1

Heuristics help people make faster, error-free decisions.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Prospect theory and the work of behavioral economists confirm that consumers are economically rational.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

The United Kingdom's Behavioral Insights Team substantially increased the amount of income tax collected each year by

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A)  printing frowning face emoticons on correspondence to delinquent payers.
B)  mailing letters to those who had not yet paid, telling them that their neighbors had paid.
C)  establishing an automatic payroll withdrawal system to collect taxes.
D)  sending delinquent payers pictures of poor children.

Question 4

Discuss prospect theory.

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Prospect theory helps to explain many co...

Question 5

Suppose Justine and Sarah are playing the dictator game. Justine is the dictator and has $150 to allocate. Based on repeated experiments of the dictator game, what amounts, on average, are Justine and Sarah most likely to receive?

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A)  $150 for Justine and $0 for Sarah.
B)  $87 for Justine and $63 for Sarah.
C)  $75 for Justine and $75 for Sarah.
D)  $0 for Justine and $150 for Sarah.

Question 6

Neoclassical and behavioral economics are generally viewed as complementary.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Susie knows that too many sugary treats, while delicious when eaten, have long-term adverse effects on weight and health. Based on this information, a neoclassical economist would expect Susie to

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A)  carefully weigh the short-term benefits against the long-term costs and make a rational decision about how many treats to eat.
B)  eat more sugary treats than is optimal, as she likely gives more weight to present events and outcomes than to ones in the future.
C)  give away most of her sugary treats in an effort to resist temptation.
D)  determine her fair share of the sugary treats available, and only eat those.

Question 8

The human tendency to believe only those data that agree with one's preconceptions and ignore other data that contradict the preconceptions is called

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A)  confirmation bias.
B)  self-serving bias.
C)  overconfidence effect.
D)  availability heuristic.

Question 9

One major consequence of the availability heuristic is that

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A)  people may spend more resources to insure themselves against rare events, but leave themselves uninsured against more common events.
B)  someone could persist in pursuing a failed policy despite overwhelming evidence of the failure.
C)  bad decisions can be made because people will act without pausing to see whether their intuition is correct or not.
D)  some people may wrongly believe in their forecasting ability to predict future outcomes of risky investments.

Question 10

When economists talk about a "new normal" in terms of conditions in the production and employment sectors, they are suggesting a change in people's perceptions influenced by the

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A)  hindsight bias.
B)  confirmation bias.
C)  availability heuristic.
D)  framing effect.

Question 11

Behavioral economists have not discovered which of the following things about people's reaction to losses?

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A)  People judge losses in relative terms; i.e., relative to the status quo.
B)  People experience increasing marginal disutility from losses.
C)  People would feel the loss of $1,000 more intensely than they would feel the gain of $1,000.
D)  When people lose successive equal amounts, the initial losses are more painful than later ones.

Question 12

Tony ran a marathon in 4.5 hours; his performance last year on the same course was 4 hours. Stacey ran the same marathon in 4 hours; her previous time was 4.4 hours. According to behavioral economists, and based solely on the information given, we would expect

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A)  Tony to feel good about his performance, and Stacey to feel good about hers.
B)  Tony to feel bad about his performance, and Stacey to feel good about hers.
C)  Tony to feel bad about his performance, and Stacey to feel bad about hers.
D)  Tony to feel good about his performance, and Stacey to feel bad about hers.

Question 13

Behavioral economists put significant emphasis on using models to

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A)  predict decisions, but not so much to understand how those decisions are made.
B)  predict decisions and also to understand how those decisions are made.
C)  understand decision processes, but not the prediction of the decision itself.
D)  understand people's actions, but not what drives people to act in certain ways.

Question 14

According to the concept of framing effects,

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A)  advertising power is limited because of the inability of firms to change consumers' perspectives.
B)  all people will assign the same utility to a given situation, regardless of their previous status quo.
C)  whether a new situation is viewed as a gain or a loss depends on one's starting position.
D)  firms should never raise prices or reduce wages.

Question 15

The tendency of hard-core Democrats to believe that all of the policies of the Trump administration have been detrimental to the nation illustrates the

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A)  confirmation bias.
B)  framing effect.
C)  overconfidence effect.
D)  availability heuristic.

Question 16

Whenever Josh goes to his favorite restaurant, he wants to buy tiramisu, his favorite dessert. Despite the fact that he would enjoy the flavor of the tiramisu the same amount every time, Josh only buys it when others are having dessert and never buys it if he would be the only one having dessert. Behavioral economists would say that Josh's decision is affected by

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A)  the availability heuristic.
B)  confirmation biases.
C)  framing effects.
D)  the self-serving bias.

Question 17

When people often blame an "act of nature" or their colleagues for their plans going awry, they are illustrating the cognitive bias known as the overconfidence effect.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The dictator game

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A)  reveals nothing important about economic behavior because the money used is hypothetical.
B)  demonstrates that people care about fairness and will sacrifice financially for others.
C)  demonstrates nothing definitive about fairness, as concerns about the other player's perceptions will influence the dictator's choices.
D)  regularly results in the dictator taking all of the money for him/herself, as economic theory would predict.

Question 19

Junior collects baseball cards. He owns one Felix Hernandez card that sells in most shops for $15. He is interested in buying a different Felix card that also sells for $15. According to behavioral economics,

Accepted Answer

A)  Junior should value the two cards equally and be willing to trade one for the other.
B)  the availability heuristic will cause Junior to value more highly the card he doesn't have.
C)  the endowment effect would suggest that Junior would not be willing to trade the card he has for the card he doesn't have.
D)  prospect theory says he will buy the second card, as both have the potential to appreciate in value.

Question 20

In anonymous surveys, on average people rate themselves as "above average" with regard to characteristics such as intelligence, perceptiveness, and driving ability. According to behavioral economics, this contradictory result would most likely be caused by the

Accepted Answer

A)  overconfidence effect.
B)  self-serving bias.
C)  confirmation bias.
D)  hindsight bias.

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The United Kingdom's Behavioral Insights Team substantially increased the amount of income tax collected each year by

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When people often blame an "act of nature" or their colleagues for their plans going awry, they are illustrating the cognitive bias known as the overconfidence effect.

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Heuristics help people make faster, error-free decisions.

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The dictator game

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Suppose Justine and Sarah are playing the dictator game. Justine is the dictator and has $150 to allocate. Based on repeated experiments of the dictator game, what amounts, on average, are Justine and Sarah most likely to receive?

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The human tendency to believe only those data that agree with one's preconceptions and ignore other data that contradict the preconceptions is called

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The tendency of hard-core Democrats to believe that all of the policies of the Trump administration have been detrimental to the nation illustrates the

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Behavioral economists have not discovered which of the following things about people's reaction to losses?

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Behavioral economists put significant emphasis on using models to

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Prospect theory and the work of behavioral economists confirm that consumers are economically rational.

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Neoclassical and behavioral economics are generally viewed as complementary.

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According to the concept of framing effects,

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When economists talk about a "new normal" in terms of conditions in the production and employment sectors, they are suggesting a change in people's perceptions influenced by the

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Tony ran a marathon in 4.5 hours; his performance last year on the same course was 4 hours. Stacey ran the same marathon in 4 hours; her previous time was 4.4 hours. According to behavioral economists, and based solely on the information given, we would expect

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One major consequence of the availability heuristic is that

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Junior collects baseball cards. He owns one Felix Hernandez card that sells in most shops for $15. He is interested in buying a different Felix card that also sells for $15. According to behavioral economics,

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