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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What branch of medicine deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other health factors?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Epidemiology.
(c) Psychiatry.
(d) Biology.

2. Cognitive strain is defined by the author as being affected by both the current level of effort and what?
(a) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(b) The presence of unmet demands.
(c) The probability of future expectations.
(d) Levels of intelligence.

3. The author states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?
(a) The different values of statistics.
(b) The randomness of truly random events.
(c) The merits of analytical analysis.
(d) The causality of events.

4. In the conclusion of the study of availability bias conducted by Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, and Baruch Fischoff, they deduced that estimates of causes of death are warped by what?
(a) Media coverage.
(b) The economy.
(c) Direct knowledge.
(d) Family history of illness.

5. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Danny Oppenheimer.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate in the reader thinking in automatic mode?

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?

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

4. The author asserts that conflict between an automatic reaction and what is common in our lives?

5. Who introduced the labels System 1 and System 2 as systems of the mind?

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