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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom from the University of Chicago asked people to price sets of dinnerware in order to examine joint evaluation?
(a) Max Bazerman.
(b) Christopher Hese.
(c) John List.
(d) Gary Klein.

2. 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) John Gottman.
(b) Richard Thaler.
(c) Harry Markowitz.
(d) Bruno Frey.

3. Who wrote Judgment in Managerial Decision Making?
(a) Christopher Hsee.
(b) John List.
(c) Gary Klein.
(d) Max Bazerman.

4. What do causal base rates do?
(a) They create axioms.
(b) They solidify one's view of the overall perspective of a case.
(c) They change one's view of how the individual case came to be.
(d) They create ego depletion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 26, "In mixed gambles, where both a gain and a loss are possible," what happens (552)?

2. What part of the brain has a primary role as its threat center?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. What color are the cabs in the statistics problem presented by the author to examine statistical base rates and causal base rates?

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