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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what is determined by the coherence of the best story you can tell by the evidence at hand?
(a) Axioms.
(b) Ego depletion.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Executive control.

2. Who discovered a named regression to the mean?
(a) Gary Klein.
(b) John List.
(c) Christopher Hsee.
(d) Sir Francis Galton.

3. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Shane Frederick.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.

4. Who was the Nobel Prize-winning economist that proposed a theory where utility are attached to changes of wealth rather than to states of wealth?
(a) Harry Markowitz.
(b) Richard Thaler.
(c) Bruno Frey.
(d) John Gottman.

5. What part of the brain has a primary role as its threat center?
(a) The brainstem.
(b) The cerebellum.
(c) The occipital lobe.
(d) The amygdala.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author demonstrates enlisting cognitive ease when writing, he gives two statements about Adolf Hitler. Which of these statements APPEARED to be the most legitimate?

2. Who coined the term "Econs and Humans"?

3. The author offers a scenario in which a subject purchases a $200 concert ticket to see their favorite band. They find that others are offering $3,000 for the ticket, but they do not sell it. What is this an example of?

4. Where did Kahneman and Tversky present their Linda study to doctoral students in the decision-science program?

5. What well-known expert in marital relations estimated that a stable relationship requires good interactions outnumber bad interactions by at least 5 to 1?

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