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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term did Sunstein and Kuran invent for the mechanism through which biases flow into policy?
(a) An anchoring effect.
(b) The Moses Illusion.
(c) The availability cascade.
(d) Cognitive Pupillometry.

2. Amos Tversky, Tom Gilovich, and Robert Vallone conducted a study of misperceptions and randomness in what sport?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Football.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Tennis.

3. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?
(a) To maintain and update a model for one's personal world.
(b) To calculate difficult problems such as math equations.
(c) To categorize numbers and letters and find associations between them.
(d) To grasp large concepts in relation to small concepts.

4. Who wrote Judgment in Managerial Decision Making?
(a) John List.
(b) Christopher Hsee.
(c) Gary Klein.
(d) Max Bazerman.

5. What region of the brain is substantially more developed in humans than other primates and is involved in operations associated with intelligence?
(a) The brainstem.
(b) The occipital lobe.
(c) The prefrontal area.
(d) The cerebellum.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what is determined by the coherence of the best story you can tell by the evidence at hand?

2. What is System 2 in charge of in terms of behavior?

3. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?

4. The author gives an example in Chapter 10 wherein a large urn is filled with equal numbers of red and white marbles. A person takes four marbles from the urn, counts them, and returns them. The author asserts that the outcome of "two red and two white" marbles is how many times higher than the outcome of four red, or four white marbles?

5. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which individual is described as recently completing her graduate work?

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