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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30 - 34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of the brain has a primary role as its threat center?
(a) The occipital lobe.
(b) The amygdala.
(c) The cerebellum.
(d) The brainstem.

2. Who first demonstrated the hindsight bias as a student in Jerusalem?
(a) John List.
(b) Malcolm Gladwell.
(c) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
(d) Baruch Fischhoff.

3. What do we lose touch with when we are uncomfortable or unhappy?
(a) Articulation.
(b) Recognition.
(c) Admiration.
(d) Intuition.

4. The average effort of System 2 is repeatedly compared with what?
(a) A race.
(b) A stroll.
(c) A sprint.
(d) A crawl.

5. What term refers to the quality of being noticeable or important?
(a) Endowment.
(b) Heuristic.
(c) Articulate.
(d) Salience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What neighborhood within Niagara Falls, New York was the location of a 70-acre landfill that was the epicenter of a massive environmental disaster?

2. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?

3. What psychologist demonstrated disgust by relating that one cockroach could ruin the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but that one cherry would not do anything for a bowl of cockroaches?

4. What do causal base rates do?

5. When did the CIA obtain information that al-Qaeda might be planning a major attack against the United States?

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