The steps involved in translating a decision statement into specific research objectives is called: ...

The steps involved in translating a decision statement into specific research objectives is called:
 a. debriefing.
 b. problem definition.
 c. situation analysis.
 d. a research proposal.

Question 2

All of these factors influence confidence except:
 a. set size.
 b. insensitivity to base rates.
 c. calibration.
 d. the pseudodiagnosticity effect.
 e. insensitivity of missing information.

Question 3

A written statement of the questions that a research user wants to answer is called a:
 a. decision statement.
 b. constant.
 c. managerial action standard.
 d. dummy table.

Question 4

The decision aid involving the construction of a key list of inputs for a decision, importance weights for each input, and subjective ratings of each input for each decision alternative is known as:
 a. an actuarial model.
 b. a subjective linear model.
 c. an objective linear model.
 d. a fault tree.
 e. a convergence model.

Question 5

When a phone interviewer pretends to be asking questions about political candidates in a neutral fashion, but then shifts to questions that have a bias against one particular candidate, this is an example of a:
 a. pull poll.
 b. debriefing.
 c. right to privacy.
 d. push poll.

Question 6

Events that have occurred frequently in the past are likely to occur again in the future is an example of:
 a. base rate.
 b. validity.
 c. the planning fallacy.
 d. redundancy.
 e. cognitive closure.

Question 7

When a company pretends that it has not yet made a decision about which marketing research company to hire to do a project, when, in fact, it is just going through the motions so that it can obtain three bids from suppliers, this is an example of:
 a. relativism.
 b. pseudo-research.
 c. operationalism.
 d. debriefing.