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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 14.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who coined the term "mere exposure effect"?
(a) Shane Frederick.
(b) Danny Oppenheimer.
(c) Robert Zajonc.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.
2. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Daniel Gilbert.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Shane Frederick.
3. Amos Tversky, Tom Gilovich, and Robert Vallone conducted a study of misperceptions and randomness in what sport?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Football.
(d) Tennis.
4. From what college did Kahneman and Tversky derive their subjects for their wheel of fortune study?
(a) The University of Oregon.
(b) Berkeley University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) The University of Las Vegas.
5. In the presentation of the "character" of Tom W. in Chapter 14, what is the subject of the experiment asked to rate?
(a) What job Tom has.
(b) At what age Tom gets married.
(c) How old Tom is.
(d) What Tom's major is in college.
Short Answer Questions
1. What term is used to describe the adoption and termination of task sets by psychologists?
2. What do scientists call observations that are produced entirely by some aspect of the method of research?
3. What example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?
4. The author gives an example in Chapter 10 wherein a large urn is filled with equal numbers of red and white marbles. A person takes four marbles from the urn, counts them, and returns them. The author asserts that the outcome of "two red and two white" marbles is how many times higher than the outcome of four red, or four white marbles?
5. 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?
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