BE 1.03 Session Review

Trivia

100

What technology does Lian Pin Koh find to be most useful in tracking poachers?

Drones

200

What does Barry Schwartz call a person who is happy with making decisions that are "good enough?" 

A satisficer 

300

Comedian George Carlin had a skit about what? 

Stuff 

400

What country scores the highest on the Happy Planet Index? 

Costa Rica 

500

What is the name of the book Barry Schwartz wrote? 

The Paradox of Choice 

Vocabulary

100

(adj) Something that has multiple uses or functions 

multifunctional 

200

(n) A person who tries to do things without fault or error 

A perfectionist 

300

(v) To move something from a physical form to a digital form 

Digitize 

400

(adj) causing confusion because something is so great in number or effect. 

Overwhelming 

500

(adj) Irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with

Extraneous 

Fill in the blank

100

Juliana Machado Ferreira conducts her research on  poachers in the Amazon rainforest in _________. 

Brazil 

200

Drones were used in _______ to monitor wildlife at the foothills of the Himalayas. 

Nepal 

300

In Sumatra, Indonesia drones captured the nests of ________ in the trees. 

Orangutans 

400

The _____ pet trade is worth $15 billion dollars in the US alone. 

Exotic

500

According to Schwartz, a greater number of choices has a negative impact on _________. 

Happiness

Miscellaneous

100

Satisficers have a _______ chance of becoming depressed than maximizers. 

Lower chance 

200

(v) To unite or merge two or more things together.

Combine 

300

How much money does question 5 propose tipped workers should get per hour in Massachusetts? 

$15 an hour 

400

There are 2.3 billion square feet of ______ in the United States. 

Storage 

500

"What's in the box? I don't know, but what I do know is that this box has been moving with me from apartment to apartment..." 

"What's in the box?" is an example of what kind of question? 

A rhetorical question