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

2. What does the acronym WYSIATI stand for?
(a) What you satisfy is all there is.
(b) What you see is all there is.
(c) What you seek is all there is.
(d) What you supply is all there is.

3. What is System 2 in charge of in terms of behavior?
(a) Deception.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Impulse.
(d) Self-control.

4. According to the author, people who are what are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations?
(a) Cognitively busy.
(b) Considery axioms.
(c) Following fallacies.
(d) Emotionally active.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Albert Michotte from?

2. 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?

3. What is the title of the first joint article written by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky?

4. What color are the cabs in the statistics problem presented by the author to examine statistical base rates and causal base rates?

5. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?

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