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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?
(a) Shane Frederick.
(b) Samoff Mednick.
(c) Danny Oppenheimer.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.

2. 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?
(a) The statement in small print.
(b) The statement in italics.
(c) The statement in bold print.
(d) The statement in wide-set print.

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?
(a) Theory-induced blindness.
(b) Narrative fallacy.
(c) The availability cascade.
(d) Endowment effect.

4. In the aphorisms presented by the author in Chapter 5, what aphorisms were judged to be more insightful to study participants?
(a) The ones that do not rhyme.
(b) The ones that are memorable.
(c) The ones that rhyme.
(d) The ones that use large words.

5. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which individual is described as recently completing her graduate work?
(a) Kim.
(b) Anne.
(c) Mary.
(d) Sarah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the fictional Linda major in?

2. Extreme predictions and willingness to predict events from weak evidence are manifestations of what?

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

4. The author compares the conscious mind with what in Chapter 5?

5. According to the author in Chapter 26, "In bad choices, where a sure loss is compared to a larger loss that is merely probable," what is the result (552)?

(see the answer key)

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