BA340_D2 Strategic Thinking and Innovation- Week 5 Quiz Top of Form

Question 1

0 / 8 pts

The textbook lists two broad areas for gaining insight. Name these.

You Answered

Correct Answers

mindful experience process pg. 160

process mindful experience pg. 160

Process and Mindful Experience pg 160

mindful experience and process pg 160

Question 2

5 / 7 pts

At a railroad convention in St. Louis in 1883, a railroad engineer developed, proposed, and successfully won approval for a shift from fifty distinct railroad times to the four national times that are used to this day. Name these four time zones used today.

You Answered

Correct Answers

Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific

Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific

Question 3

7 / 7 pts

In 1967, the International Conference on Weights and Measures declared a new way to measure time. In the new era, time would be measured by "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of casium 133." The device that measures this is better known as ___________?

a satellite clock

Correct!

the atomic clock

Global Positioning Systems

the grandfather clock

the digital clock

the atomic clock

Question 4

0 / 6 pts

Most medieval towns had large, unwieldy mechanical clocks that kept a loose version of the correct time. But they were often up to 20 or more minutes off each day and had to be corrected by what means?

the hour glass

the hour glass

You Answered

the historic site called Stonehenge

Correct Answer

the sundial

the ocean tides

Use of a Sundial

Question 5

8 / 8 pts

In Weeks 3 and 4 we discussed four different types of Strategic Leadership styles: Visionary, Directive, Incubating and Collaborative. In Dr. Haney's presentation this week on Fear & Blocks, he referred to a Forbes study on the five personality types of innovators. List and define two of these five personality types.

Your Answer:

Movers and Shakers- These individuals have drive. Leadership and initiative, get things done, and can influence others

Controllers- structure required, do not like change because they cant predict outcome, low risk takers, and use to controlling their own areas.

You should have included these five areas and briefly define each:

Movers and Shakers - personal drive/push

Experimenters-persistent

Star Pupils-just out there and good a lot of things

Controllers-want everything in place

Hangers-On tethered to reality

Question 6

6 / 6 pts

A great leap in the accuracy of time in the middle ages was the development of the part of the clock that created "equal time" movements which made clocks accurate almost to the second. This part of the clock was known as the _________________?

Metronome

the Crown

Correct!

Pendulum

Interlocking Gears

pendulum

Question 7

0 / 6 pts

In this week's presentation, Dr. Haney's discusses in great detail what innovated thinking (and creativity) is about. Which word best describes that?

Self Reflection

Psychology

Correct Answer

Connection

You Answered

Change

Question 8

6 / 6 pts

In the mid 19th century the American railroad system solved the problem of scattered times of rail travel by synchronizing all time to Greenwich Mean Time or GMT.

True

Correct!

False

The British did this.

Question 9

4 / 4 pts

According to Dr. Haney, "ambulonecrophobia" is the fear of:

Speaking in Public

Correct!

Zombies

Going to Work Everyday

Dealing with Change

Riding in Ambulances

Zombies

Question 10

7 / 7 pts

Legend has it that a 19 year old student at the University of Pisa, Italy attending a prayer service at the cathedral noticed an alter lamp swaying in arcs back and forth in equal rhythms.This student's name was:

Michaelangelo

DaVinci

Correct!

Galileo

Corpernicus

Galileo

Question 11

6 / 6 pts

In order to improve the accuracy of clocks in the late 1800s and early 1900s, inventors and engineers began to recognize the curious property of this substance, which when under pressure, could be made to vibrate (expand and contract in "equal time") at a remarkable stable frequency. This effect was even more pronounced when an alternating current was applied to this substance. What was this substance that was then used in the evolution of time keeping?

Neutrons

Croutons

Electron particles

Correct!

Quartz crystals

Atoms

Quartz crystals

Question 12

5 / 5 pts

According to what was mentioned in the Week 5 Module Material authored by Dr. Haney, what percent of the population of the United States is impacted in some way by anxiety issues each year?

Correct!

18.1%

98.2%

26.2%

34.9%

6.1%

18.1%

Question 13

5 / 5 pts

According to what was mentioned in the Week 5 Module Material authored by Dr. Haney, anxiety disorders are highly treatable, yet only _____________% of those suffering receive treatment.

10%

1%

78.4%

Correct!

36.9

Question 14

6 / 6 pts

In Dr. Bill Haney's video entitled "The Psychology of Individual Change" he talked about four main issues or reasons why people do not change. Which one of the following is NOT one of those reasons?

Identify

Stubbornness

Fear

Time

Correct!

Blaming

The four issues are fear, stubbornness, identity, time.

Question 15

7 / 7 pts

Thinking he would be rejected, Jia Jiang (in his TED talk entitled "What I Learned from 100 Days of Being Rejected") approached a doughnut company and asked them to make a doughnut in the form of what?

Your Answer:

link them together to look like olympic symbols

Question 16

0 / 6 pts

From Dr. Haney's video, fill in the blanks:

"Change is a(n) issue not an one."

Answer 1:

You Answered psychological individual

Correct Answer

emotional

Correct Answer

Emotional

Answer 2:

You Answered organizational

Correct Answer

intellectual

Correct Answer

Intellectual

emotional / intellectual

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