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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Extreme predictions and willingness to predict events from weak evidence are manifestations of what?
(a) Arrogance.
(b) System 2.
(c) System 1.
(d) Confidence.

2. What do scientists call observations that are produced entirely by some aspect of the method of research?
(a) Axioms.
(b) Artifacts.
(c) Heuristics.
(d) Mediums.

3. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Fritz Heider and Mary-Ann Simmel.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Shane Frederick.

4. What illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?
(a) The Biblical Illusion.
(b) The Noah Illusion.
(c) The Moses Illusion.
(d) The Muller-Lyer illusion.The

5. 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?
(a) 6.
(b) 13.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the author suggest when quoting sources in persuasive writing?

5. The author conludes in Chapter 10 that humans pay more attention to the content of messages than to what?

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