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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 German psychologists offered the most compelling demonstrations of the role of associative coherence in anchoring, according to the author?
(a) Thomas Mussweiler and Fritz Strack.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) William Feller.
(d) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.

2. Who introduced the labels System 1 and System 2 as systems of the mind?
(a) Keith Stanovich and Richard West.
(b) Nassim Taleb.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

3. 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 grasp large concepts in relation to small concepts.
(d) To maintain and update a model for one's personal world.

4. Who discovered a named regression to the mean?
(a) Sir Francis Galton.
(b) Gary Klein.
(c) Christopher Hsee.
(d) John List.

5. Who coined the term "denominator neglect"?
(a) Shane Frederick.
(b) Craig Fox.
(c) Paul Slovic.
(d) John Gottman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created a study article called "Becoming Famous Overnight"?

2. In conducting their wheel of fortune study, Kahneman and Tversky set their wheel to only stop on what numbers?

3. Where was John von Neumann originally from?

4. What happened to bond prices on the day of Saddam Hussein's capture in Iraq?

5. Who wrote the article "The Robust Beauty of Improper Linear Models in Decision Making"?

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