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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the first joint article written by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky?
(a) "Probability and Theory."
(b) "Introduction to the Mind and Morals."
(c) "The Perception of Causality."
(d) "Belief in the Law of Small Numbers."

2. According to the author, people who are what are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations?
(a) Following fallacies.
(b) Emotionally active.
(c) Considery axioms.
(d) Cognitively busy.

3. 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) Memory.
(b) Prediction.
(c) Causality.
(d) Consciousness.

4. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?
(a) To calculate difficult problems such as math equations.
(b) To categorize numbers and letters and find associations between them.
(c) To maintain and update a model for one's personal world.
(d) To grasp large concepts in relation to small concepts.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author compares the conscious mind with what in Chapter 5?

2. Who first demonstrated the hindsight bias as a student in Jerusalem?

3. Who wrote the 2005 book Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

4. Where did Kahneman and Tversky present their Linda study to doctoral students in the decision-science program?

5. Who discovered a named regression to the mean?

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