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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 was Richard Nisbett's student who assisted in conducting an experiment at the University of Michigan that the author cites in Chapter 15?
(a) Gary Klein.
(b) Christopher Hsee.
(c) Eugene Borgida.
(d) John List.

2. The author states in the opening of Chapter 29, "Whenever you form a global evaluation of a complex object--a car you may buy, your son-in-law, or an uncertain situation--you" do what (600)?
(a) "Assign weights to its characteristics."
(b) "Evaluate the normalcy of the events or subjects."
(c) "Seek advice from experience."
(d) "Make immediate assumptions."

3. 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?
(a) Losing $50.
(b) Losing $20.
(c) Getting $80 for certain.
(d) Getting $46 for certain.

4. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?
(a) Incongruity.
(b) Articluation.
(c) Depletion.
(d) Recognition.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What creates an asymmetry that makes agreements difficult to reach?

2. 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)?

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

4. In the first description of the fictional Linda, Kahneman and Tversky said that she was how old?

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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