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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the intellectual leader of an association of scholars against the author's works who call themselves NDM's?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Baruch Fischhoff.
(c) Malcolm Gladwell.
(d) Gary Klein.

2. What occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity?
(a) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(b) Ego depletion.
(c) An anchoring effect.
(d) Artifacts.

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?
(a) 13.
(b) 4.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

4. Who wrote The Invisible Gorilla?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

5. Whose experiment demonstrating a noncausal base rate when describing a group of students attending Yale?
(a) Gary Klein.
(b) Christopher Hsee.
(c) Icek Ajzen.
(d) John List.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which individual is described as recently completing her graduate work?

2. When did Kahneman publish Attention and Effort?

3. What illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?

4. Whom from the University of Chicago asked people to price sets of dinnerware in order to examine joint evaluation?

5. From what college did Kahneman and Tversky derive their subjects for their wheel of fortune study?

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