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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Daniel Gilbert.
(c) Samoff Mednick.
(d) Shane Frederick.

2. Who created the Cognitive Reflection Test that involves the bat-and-ball problem along with two others?
(a) Shane Frederick.
(b) Danny Oppenheimer.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.

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

4. What example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?
(a) A picture of an angry woman.
(b) A multiplication problem.
(c) A picture of a stream.
(d) A compound sentence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first description of the fictional Linda, Kahneman and Tversky said that she was how old?

2. Amos Tversky, Tom Gilovich, and Robert Vallone conducted a study of misperceptions and randomness in what sport?

3. What do causal base rates do?

4. In the statistics presented by the author in the opening of Chapter 10, he states that instances of what disease are less prevalent in rural, sparsely populated counties largely in the Midwest, South, and the West?

5. Who is described as the editor for the online magazine Edge that asked scientists to report their favorite equation?

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