Thinking, Fast and Slow Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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 | Eight Week Quiz G

Daniel Kahneman
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 35 - 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, the author points out that "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters" (728). What are these masters defined as?
(a) Logic and emotion.
(b) Pain and pleasure.
(c) Science and cognitive reasoning.
(d) Math and biology.

2. 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) Nine times more often.
(b) Three times more often.
(c) Two times more often.
(d) Six times more often.

3. In the statistics presented by the author in the opening of Chapter 10, he states that instances of what disease are less prevalent in rural, sparsely populated counties largely in the Midwest, South, and the West?
(a) AIDS.
(b) Kidney cancer.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Uterine cancer.

4. 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) Lost.
(b) Prevalent.
(c) Pickpocket.
(d) City.

5. Whose study on duration neglect and the peak-end rule involved a story of Jen, who died instantly in an automobile accident?
(a) Ed Dienter's.
(b) Baruch Fischhoff's.
(c) John Gottman's.
(d) Christopher Hsee's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What experimental economist conducted an experiment by auctioning sets of ten high-value cards, and identical sets to which three cards of modest value were added?

2. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?

3. What term introduced by Nassim Taleb describes how flawed stories of the past shape our views of the present and the future?

4. How many pairs of competing companies are analyzed in Built to Last?

5. Who proved mathematically that attempts to explain loss aversion by the utility of wealth are doomed to fail?

(see the answer key)

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