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  • October 19, 2024
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29 Multiple choice questions

Term 1 of 29
The receipt of information in small increments over time also facilitates assimilation of this
information into the analyst's existing views but necessarily help to attenuate the perception
patterns unless the pieces information are analyzed as a whole.

a. True

b. Congruence bias


b. False

a. New information is assimilated to existing images.

Term 2 of 29
Which of these statements are accurate?

a. The disadvantage of a mind-set is that it can color and control our perception.


b. When faced with a major paradigm shift, analysts
who know the most about a subject have the
most to unlearn.

Answer: Both are accurate


b. Tools to help ensure rigor

b. Objectivity is achieved by making basic assumptions and reasoning as explicit as
possible so that they can be challenged by others and analysts can, themselves,
examine their validity.


c. Evaluating the quality of the sources, weighting
and ranking hypotheses, identifying assumptions,
selecting plausible outcomes, reviewing analytic line.

,Term 3 of 29
Biases in judgment reveal some heuristics of thinking under:

A. Uncertainty


a. True

b. Cognitive bias


neither good nor bad

Term 4 of 29
Mind-sets are ____________________; they are unavoidable.

A. Uncertainty

neither good nor bad

a. True


b. Cognitive bias

Term 5 of 29
The use of simplifying strategies and rules of thumb lead to predictably faulty judgments
known as cognitive biases.

b. False


b. Congruence bias

a. True

a. Ambiguity effect

,Term 6 of 29
Initial exposure to blurred or ambiguous stimuli
interferes with accurate perception even after
more and better information becomes available. Based on the previous statement is the
following argument accurate.


Once events have been perceived one way, there is a natural resistance to other perspectives.

particularly pertinent


False

b. False

a. True

Term 7 of 29
Cognitive bias results from emotional or intellectual predisposition toward a certain judgment.

particularly pertinent

False

b. False

a. True

Term 8 of 29
A pattern of deviation in judgment that occurs in particular situations.

b. Cognitive bias

a. Ambiguity effect

a. Illusion of validity

b. Congruence bias

, Term 9 of 29
Which of the following statements are considered inaccurate?

b. Objectivity is achieved by making basic assumptions and reasoning as explicit as
possible so that they can be challenged by others and analysts can, themselves,
examine their validity.

a. The disadvantage of a mind-set is that it can color and control our perception.

b. When faced with a major paradigm shift, analysts
who know the most about a subject have the
most to unlearn.

Answer: Both are accurate

c. Evaluating the quality of the sources, weighting
and ranking hypotheses, identifying assumptions,
selecting plausible outcomes, reviewing analytic line.


b. False

Term 10 of 29
______________ is the process of inference in which people construct their own version of reality on
the basis of information provided through the five senses.

c. Misconception of chance

Intelligence Analysis

Perception

b. False

Term 11 of 29
The tendency to test hypotheses exclusively through direct testing, in contrast to tests of
possible alternative hypotheses:

b. Cognitive bias

a. Ambiguity effect

a. True

b. Congruence bias

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