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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word is used to describe when people fail to apply a logical rule that is obviously relevant?
(a) Axiom.
(b) Fallacy.
(c) Heuristic.
(d) Artifact.

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

3. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(d) Jackson Beatty.

4. What term did Sunstein and Kuran invent for the mechanism through which biases flow into policy?
(a) The Moses Illusion.
(b) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(c) An anchoring effect.
(d) The availability cascade.

5. 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) Gary Klein.
(b) Christopher Hsee.
(c) Max Bazerman.
(d) John List.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Richard Nisbett's student who assisted in conducting an experiment at the University of Michigan that the author cites in Chapter 15?

2. What do scientists call observations that are produced entirely by some aspect of the method of research?

3. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?

4. In the aphorisms presented by the author in Chapter 5, what aphorisms were judged to be more insightful to study participants?

5. What is the title of the essay that Kahneman and Tversky wrote on the study of gambles?

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