Exam 12: Decision Making

Not everyone has the same "amount" of endowment effect.

Prospect theory is much better than rational choice theory at describing:

Opioids do not seem to effect impulsivity, but they do effect:

What tends to happen when humans are presented with two options (A and

Higher levels of cortisol can result in making riskier decisions when there is/are ____________ involved.

Decision models based on utility often assume that people are making _____ choices:

The ____________ of a lottery ticket depends on the probability of winning and the amount of the prize.

Which brain region is heavily involved in decision making when there is a threat and a quick decision must be made?

In the story of the climbers who perished on Mount Everest, what factors COULD have contributed to their poor decision making (at the cost of their lives)?

Drug abusers often have difficulty avoiding making decisions based on a _____________ curve.

Humans may change their decisions simply by being focused on gains rather than losses, or vice versa.

The axiom of revealed preferences is used in association with:

When trying to minimize potential losses during an experiment on strategy decisions under risk, the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex increases connectivity to these areas:

Which behavior shows steep discounting?

One of the brain regions that is active when assigning subjective value of monetary rewards is:

What does utilitarianism state about human decision making?

Decisions involving the framing effect usually also involve higher activity in the amygdala.

During the Ultimatum Game, participants may use strategies to influence:

Neuroeconomics involves the use of:

Dopaminergic loop circuits connect the orbitofrontal cortex to the: