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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 - 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the CIA obtain information that al-Qaeda might be planning a major attack against the United States?
(a) September 9, 2001.
(b) March 12, 2001.
(c) July 10, 2001.
(d) January 2, 2000.

2. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?
(a) Satisfy the need for coherence.
(b) Inform of facts.
(c) Garnish attention from actual news.
(d) Entertain and enlighten.

3. Who is the author of Clinical vs. Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence?
(a) Baruch Fischhoff.
(b) Paul Meehl.
(c) Malcolm Gladwell.
(d) Jerry I. Porras.

4. Who are the authors of Built to Last?
(a) Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras.
(b) Baruch Fischhoff and Gary Klein.
(c) Keith Stanovich and Richard West.
(d) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.

5. What term did Sunstein and Kuran invent for the mechanism through which biases flow into policy?
(a) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(b) An anchoring effect.
(c) The availability cascade.
(d) The Moses Illusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Yom Kippur War break out?

2. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?

3. What is the title of the first joint article written by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky?

4. 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?

5. The author asserts that conflict between an automatic reaction and what is common in our lives?

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