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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25 - 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which choice is favored by intuition?
(a) Kim.
(b) Jane.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Anne.

2. Who introduced the labels System 1 and System 2 as systems of the mind?
(a) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(b) Keith Stanovich and Richard West.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Nassim Taleb.

3. Who is declared by the author as the hero of the book in Chapter 1?
(a) System 2.
(b) System 1.
(c) The ego.
(d) The conscience.

4. What term refers to an approach to problem solving that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals?
(a) Heuristic.
(b) Illusion.
(c) Executive control.
(d) Causality.

5. Who was the Nobel Prize-winning economist that proposed a theory where utility are attached to changes of wealth rather than to states of wealth?
(a) Bruno Frey.
(b) Richard Thaler.
(c) Harry Markowitz.
(d) John Gottman.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?

2. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which individual is described as recently completing her graduate work?

3. Cognitive strain is defined by the author as being affected by both the current level of effort and what?

4. Who discovered a named regression to the mean?

5. Who created the Cognitive Reflection Test that involves the bat-and-ball problem along with two others?

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