1. What are statistical base rates?
(a) Facts about the history of a decision.
(b) Facts about a population to which a case belongs.
(c) Statistics that describe maximum imput.
(d) Observations about a group of people.

2. What branch of medicine deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other health factors?
(a) Epidemiology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Biology.
(d) Psychiatry.

3. What did the fictional Linda major in?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Biology.
(c) History.
(d) Economics.

4. Who created a study article called "Becoming Famous Overnight"?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) Eckhard Hess.
(d) Jackson Beatty.

5. The author compares the conscious mind with what in Chapter 5?
(a) A cemetery.
(b) A cockpit.
(c) A ship's hull.
(d) A ship's mast.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author demonstrates enlisting cognitive ease when writing, he gives two statements about Adolf Hitler. Which of these statements APPEARED to be the most legitimate?

2. The author provides an excerpt related to "norm theory" that comes from an essay he had written with what psychologist?

3. When did Kahneman publish Attention and Effort?

4. Where did Kahneman and Tversky present their Linda study to doctoral students in the decision-science program?

5. Who discovered a named regression to the mean?

(see the answer key)

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