
Unit 1.0 Behavioral Economics Vocabulary
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Which of the following best describes the field of behavioral economics?
It studies only financial markets and investments.
It applies psychological insights to explain economic decision making.
It focuses solely on government policies.
It is concerned only with mathematical models of the economy.
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Confirmation bias is the tendency to favor information that confirms our existing beliefs, leading us to overlook or dismiss contradictory evidence. This makes the first answer choice the correct one.
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What is Confirmation Bias?
Favoring information that confirms existing beliefs
Choosing familiar options due to uncertainty
Agreeing with a group to avoid conflict
Ignoring all types of evidence
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Which of the following best describes overconfidence bias?
The tendency to be more confident in one's own abilities than is justified
The tendency to avoid losses at all costs
The tendency to make decisions based on past investments
The tendency to follow the crowd
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What is Social Media Marketing?
The use of newspapers magazines or commercials to promote your business.
The use of signs and posters to promote your service or product
The use of social media platforms and websites to promote a product or service.
The use of Snapchat or Facetime
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Which of the following are key components of social media marketing?
Using social media platforms to promote a product or service
Focusing only on traditional advertising methods
Building brand visibility and connectivity
Ignoring customer engagement
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Which of the following are reasons why people fall for the sunk cost fallacy, according to the image?
Belief that quitting is for losers
Past successes delude future investments
Emotional connection over a rational one
Desire to maximize short-term profits
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What is the main focus of behavioral economics?
Applying psychological insights to economic decision making
Studying only financial markets
Focusing on mathematical models
Ignoring human behavior
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What is the term used to describe the influence of a group on an individual's behavior?
Herd mentality
Pack behavior
Groupthink
Mob mentality
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Which is an example of Herd Mentality?
All the cool kids at school are buying Booga mics, so you decide to buy one to be cool too.
Everyone is going to see the Emoji movie, but you decide not to go because it is clearly a bad movie..
Mr. High says Hawaiian pizza is good but Mr.Dwyer heroically stands against the hierarchy.
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The tendency to search for information that confirms our existing beliefs is called:
Overconfidence bias
Herd mentality
Confirmation bias
Loss aversion
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Which term describes the fear of missing out on potential opportunities or experiences?
Endowment effect
Overestimation
Hedonic adaptation
FOMO
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The tendency to value things more highly simply because we own them is known as:
Loss aversion
Endowment effect
Herd mentality
Overconfidence bias
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Which bias leads people to feel more pain from losses than pleasure from equivalent gains?
Confirmation bias
Overestimation
Endowment effect
Loss aversion
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