Decision making and Creativity

Decision making is a nonconscious process of moving toward a desirable state of affairs.

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Nonprogrammed decisions require all steps in the decision model because the problems they present are new, complex, or ill-defined.

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• False

The rational choice decision-making process recommends choosing the alternative with a moderate subjective expected utility.

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• False

Decision makers typically look at alternatives sequentially and compare each alternative with an implicit favourite.

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• False

Intuition allows us to draw on our tacit knowledge to guide our decision preferences.

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Escalation of commitment is likely to occur when the perceived costs of terminating the project are high or unknown.

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• False

The incubation stage of creativity is more effective when the decision maker sets aside all other activities and focuses attention on the issue or problem.

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• False

Creative people have practical intelligence but not cognitive intelligence.

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• False