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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whom from the University of Chicago asked people to price sets of dinnerware in order to examine joint evaluation?
2. 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?
3. According to the author, people who are what are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations?
4. What do causal base rates do?
5. In the presentation of the "character" of Tom W. in Chapter 14, what is the subject of the experiment asked to rate?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Bayesian inference?
2. What does the author say about stereotyping?
3. How does System 1 operate?
4. What is the halo effect?
5. How does the author explore talent and luck in the book?
6. How are believing and unbelieving described in Daniel Gilbert's essay "How Mental Systems Believe"?
7. Why did Kahneman's professor of psychotherapy instruct his students to turn away a patient who described having been failed by therapists before him? What concept does this example demonstrate?
8. What is demonstrated in the experiment that involved a person having a seizure?
9. What are the processes of System 2?
10. What is prospect theory?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What has the author concluded regarding risk-taking choices? How do they connect with or oppose risk aversion? What are examples presented by the author that illustrate these concepts?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the Law of Small Numbers. What does this law state? How does the author illustrate the law? How does the law come into play when we assess statistics from scientific studies?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss the Cognitive Reflection Test. Who constructed the test? What does "cognitive reflection" refer to? What are the author's conclusions regarding the test?
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