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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 14.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When the author demonstrates enlisting cognitive ease when writing, he gives two statements about Adolf Hitler. Which of these statements APPEARED to be the most legitimate?
(a) The statement in italics.
(b) The statement in wide-set print.
(c) The statement in bold print.
(d) The statement in small print.
2. What example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?
(a) A picture of a stream.
(b) A multiplication problem.
(c) A picture of an angry woman.
(d) A compound sentence.
3. In one example provided for the reader, Kahneman instructs to draw one line, 2 1/2 inches from the bottom of a sheet of paper. On a second sheet, the subject is to draw a 2 1/5 line from the top. What are his observations regarding the lines?
(a) The line from the top will be more accurate.
(b) Both lines will be equally accurate.
(c) The line from the bottom will be more accurate.
(d) Both lines will be divergent but correct.
4. What psychologist described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul in Scientific American?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Nassim Taleb.
(c) Eckhard Hess.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
5. What term did Sunstein and Kuran invent for the mechanism through which biases flow into policy?
(a) The availability cascade.
(b) An anchoring effect.
(c) The Moses Illusion.
(d) Cognitive Pupillometry.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Kahneman publish Attention and Effort?
2. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?
3. What comparison does the author make between six-year-old boys and six-year-old girls in Chapter 10?
4. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?
5. The average effort of System 2 is repeatedly compared with what?
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