Thinking, Fast and Slow Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Daniel Kahneman
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Thinking, Fast and Slow Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Daniel Kahneman
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 - 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author gives an example in Chapter 10 wherein a large urn is filled with equal numbers of red and white marbles. A person takes four marbles from the urn, counts them, and returns them. The author asserts that the outcome of "two red and two white" marbles is how many times higher than the outcome of four red, or four white marbles?
(a) Two times more often.
(b) Six times more often.
(c) Nine times more often.
(d) Three times more often.

2. Who is the author of The Halo Effect?
(a) Baruch Fischhoff.
(b) Christopher Chabris.
(c) Malcolm Gladwell.
(d) Philip Rosenzweig.

3. What psychologist described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul in Scientific American?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(d) Eckhard Hess.

4. The author asserts that errors of prediction are inevitable for what reason?
(a) Because humans lack objectivity.
(b) Because we do not have the math to calculate the future.
(c) Because the world is unpredictable.
(d) Because humans lack statistical knowledge.

5. The author presents a sentence describing Jane losing her wallet in New York in Chapter 6. What word stood out the most for subjects given a recall test about the sentence?
(a) Prevalent.
(b) Lost.
(c) City.
(d) Pickpocket.

Short Answer Questions

1. What neighborhood within Niagara Falls, New York was the location of a 70-acre landfill that was the epicenter of a massive environmental disaster?

2. In the conclusion of the study of availability bias conducted by Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, and Baruch Fischoff, they deduced that estimates of causes of death are warped by what?

3. How many of the participants in Nisbett's experiment at the Univerity of Michigan never got out of their booth when the stooge pleaded for help?

4. In the first description of the fictional Linda, Kahneman and Tversky said that she was how old?

5. Who is the finance professor at U.C. Berkeley who created a study wherein he examined the trading records of 10,000 brokerage accounts of individual investors over a seven-year period?

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