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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Larry Jacoby.

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

3. What term introduced by Nassim Taleb describes how flawed stories of the past shape our views of the present and the future?
(a) Narrative fallacy.
(b) Confidence fallacy.
(c) Ego fallacy.
(d) Availability fallacy.

4. 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?
(a) The statement in bold print.
(b) The statement in wide-set print.
(c) The statement in italics.
(d) The statement in small print.

5. Who is described as the editor for the online magazine Edge that asked scientists to report their favorite equation?
(a) Gary Klein.
(b) Christopher Hsee.
(c) John List.
(d) John Brockman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Based on the law of least effort, the author concludes that what characteristic is built deep into our nature?

2. Who is the author of The Black Swan?

3. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?

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

5. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?

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