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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 is a reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods?
(a) Frequent repetition.
(b) Standing boldly with arms crossed.
(c) Nodding.
(d) Looking to the left.

2. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?
(a) They are heuristic.
(b) They require attention.
(c) They are automatic.
(d) They are fast.

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

4. What is the title of the first joint article written by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky?
(a) "Introduction to the Mind and Morals."
(b) "Belief in the Law of Small Numbers."
(c) "Probability and Theory."
(d) "The Perception of Causality."

5. What book did Abert Michotte write in 1945?
(a) Introduction to Cognitive Pupillometry.
(b) The Moses Illusion.
(c) Introduction to the Mind and Morals.
(d) The Perception of Causality.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the presentation of the "character" of Tom W. in Chapter 14, what is the subject of the experiment asked to rate?

2. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?

3. The author compares the conscious mind with what in Chapter 5?

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

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

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