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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, the dynamics of what help explain the recurrent cycles of disaster, concern, and complacency that are familiar to students of large-scale emergencies?
(a) Prediction.
(b) Memory.
(c) Causality.
(d) Consciousness.

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

3. Cognitive strain is defined by the author as being affected by both the current level of effort and what?
(a) Levels of intelligence.
(b) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(c) The probability of future expectations.
(d) The presence of unmet demands.

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

5. What is the conclusion of the paper "Trading is Hazardous to Your Health"?
(a) The most active traders earned the highest returns while the least active traders earned low returns.
(b) The most active traders had the poorest results while the least active traders earned the highest returns.
(c) Both active traders and inactive traders earned similar returns.
(d) The speed of which trading correlates directly with loss aversion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is used to describe the adoption and termination of task sets by psychologists?

2. The author describes a phenomenon discovered by Roy Baumeister's team wherein an effort of will is tiring, and if you have to force yourself to do something, you are less able to exert self-control when the next challenge appears. What is this phenomenon named?

3. What is described as the currency consumed by the nervous system above all others, and which serves as a currency for effortful mental activity?

4. Who is the author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street?

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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