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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author compares the conscious mind with what in Chapter 5?
(a) A ship's mast.
(b) A ship's hull.
(c) A cemetery.
(d) A cockpit.

2. What do causal base rates do?
(a) They solidify one's view of the overall perspective of a case.
(b) They create axioms.
(c) They create ego depletion.
(d) They change one's view of how the individual case came to be.

3. What happened to bond prices on the day of Saddam Hussein's capture in Iraq?
(a) The drastically dropped.
(b) They stayed the same.
(c) They initially dropped.
(d) They initially rose.

4. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?
(a) The Executive Control illusion.
(b) The illusion of Narrative Fallacy.
(c) The Anchoring illusion.
(d) The Muller-Lyer illusion.

5. In conducting their wheel of fortune study, Kahneman and Tversky set their wheel to only stop on what numbers?
(a) 10 or 65.
(b) 4 or 89.
(c) 13 or 16.
(d) 12 or 98.

Short Answer Questions

1. Extreme outcomes are much more likely to be observed under what conditions?

2. What term refers to an approach to problem solving that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals?

3. What does the acronym WYSIATI stand for?

4. The author describes a study conducted before President Nixon visited China and Russia. When was this?

5. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?

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