The tendency for groups to validate wrong decisions, since individual members tend to go along with ideas they think the others support, is called?

Related Mcqs:

1. In order for a collective security regime to be successful, the members must agree on what constitutes?

   A. a collective good.
   B. aggression.
   C. nonviolence.
   D. hegemony.

2. Attributing one’s own feelings to another actor is called?

   A. mirror image
   B. transference.
   C. selective perception.
   D. projection.

3. Which type of feminist believes men and women are equal?

   A. liberal
   B. postmodern
   C. revolutionary
   D. standpoint

4. __________ is a set of rules, norms, and procedures around which the expectations of actors converge in a certain issue area.

   A. International law
   B. A security dilemma
   C. Common security
   D. Collective security

5. Neoliberals use __________ to illustrate their argument that cooperation between actors is possible.

   A. the Prisoner’s Dilemma game
   B. the bureaucratic politics model
   C. geopolitics
   D. peace studies

6. Propaganda is:______________?

   A. the validation of wrong decisions.
   B. polling.
   C. the result of increased public support for government leaders during wartime.
   D. the public promotion of a government’s official line.

7. The international system’s first attempt to create a collective security system was?

   A. the Organization of American States.
   B. the United Nations.
   C. NATO.
   D. the League of Nations.

8. Information screens:

   A. are filters used by governments to sift through the vast amounts of public data to find information relevant to national security issues.
   B. are conscious blocks of certain forms of information that run counter to a state’s official domestic or foreign policy.
   C. are subconscious filters through which people put the information coming in about the world around them.
   D. occur when groups reach decisions without accurately assessing their consequences.

9. The claims of liberalism are:_______________?

   A. all citizens are juridically equal and have equal rights to education, access to free press, religious tolerance.
   B. the legislative assembly of the state possess only those powers vested in it by the people.
   C. liberty of the individual is the right to own property including productive forces.
   D. all of the above.

10. Historical analogies, such as the U.S. use of Munich to argue that appeasement of communism in the Vietnam War would lead to increased communist aggression in Asia, is a form of what type of bias?

    A. justification of effort
    B. affective
    C. cognitive
    D. rational