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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25 - 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the experiment conducted at the University of Michigan by Richard Nisbett, how many of the 15 participants responded immediately to the stooge's plea for help?
(a) 9.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 13.

2. What color are the cabs in the statistics problem presented by the author to examine statistical base rates and causal base rates?
(a) Red and green.
(b) Yellow and green.
(c) Green and blue.
(d) Blue and White.

3. What dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business was a firm believer in standard economic theory?
(a) John Gottman.
(b) Richard Thaler.
(c) Bruno Frey.
(d) Richard Rosett.

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

5. 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?
(a) John List.
(b) Christopher Hsee.
(c) Max Bazerman.
(d) Gary Klein.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose experiment demonstrating a noncausal base rate when describing a group of students attending Yale?

2. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?

3. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?

4. One of the decision problems that Kahneman and Tversky examined (as discussed in Chapter 25) was whether one would choose a coin toss in which the winner wins $100 or what?

5. What organization paid for Thaler to spend a year working with Kahneman in Vancouver?

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