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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What experimental economist conducted an experiment by auctioning sets of ten high-value cards, and identical sets to which three cards of modest value were added?
(a) Max Bazerman.
(b) John List.
(c) Gary Klein.
(d) Christopher Hsee.

2. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?
(a) Incongruity.
(b) Depletion.
(c) Recognition.
(d) Articluation.

3. Who is the author of The Black Swan?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Keith Stanovich.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

4. Amos Tversky, Tom Gilovich, and Robert Vallone conducted a study of misperceptions and randomness in what sport?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Football.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Soccer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Extreme predictions and willingness to predict events from weak evidence are manifestations of what?

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

3. What region of the brain is substantially more developed in humans than other primates and is involved in operations associated with intelligence?

4. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which individual is described as having held a postdoctoral position for the last three years?

5. What do causal base rates do?

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