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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 asserts that conflict between an automatic reaction and what is common in our lives?
(a) The intention to accept the reaction.
(b) The intention to follow that reaction.
(c) The intention to analyze the reaction.
(d) The intention to control it.

2. The author conludes in Chapter 10 that humans pay more attention to the content of messages than to what?
(a) Information about their reliability.
(b) The statistics behind them.
(c) Information about their connection with self.
(d) Their causality.

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

4. Whose experiment demonstrating a noncausal base rate when describing a group of students attending Yale?
(a) Gary Klein.
(b) Icek Ajzen.
(c) John List.
(d) Christopher Hsee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Judgment in Managerial Decision Making?

2. From what college did Kahneman and Tversky derive their subjects for their wheel of fortune study?

3. According to the author, the dynamics of what help explain the recurrent cycles of disaster, concern, and complacency that are familiar to students of large-scale emergencies?

4. The author notes that stereotyping is a negative word in our society. How does the author apply the word in his usage?

5. What illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?

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