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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 - 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author presents a sentence describing Jane losing her wallet in New York in Chapter 6. What word stood out the most for subjects given a recall test about the sentence?
(a) City.
(b) Prevalent.
(c) Lost.
(d) Pickpocket.

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

3. What comparison does the author make between six-year-old boys and six-year-old girls in Chapter 10?
(a) Their kind behavior.
(b) Their mathematical skills.
(c) Their average vocabulary.
(d) Their skills at geometry.

4. Who created a study article called "Becoming Famous Overnight"?
(a) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(b) Jackson Beatty.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Eckhard Hess.

5. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?
(a) Jackson Beatty.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Nassim Taleb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do causal base rates do?

2. How many of the participants in Nisbett's experiment at the Univerity of Michigan never got out of their booth when the stooge pleaded for help?

3. The average effort of System 2 is repeatedly compared with what?

4. What example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?

5. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?

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