1. What does the acronym WYSIATI stand for?
(a) What you seek is all there is.
(b) What you satisfy is all there is.
(c) What you supply is all there is.
(d) What you see is all there is.

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

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

4. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?
(a) Daniel Gilbert.
(b) Danny Oppenheimer.
(c) Fritz Heider and Mary-Ann Simmel.
(d) Shane Frederick.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?

3. When did Kahneman publish Attention and Effort?

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

5. What is a reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods?

(see the answer key)

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