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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author notes that stereotyping is a negative word in our society. How does the author apply the word in his usage?
(a) Positive.
(b) Neutral.
(c) Tragic.
(d) Caustic.

2. In the experiment conducted at the University of Michigan by Richard Nisbett, how many of the 15 participants responded immediately to the stooge's plea for help?
(a) 4.
(b) 7.
(c) 13.
(d) 9.

3. According to the author, the dynamics of what help explain the recurrent cycles of disaster, concern, and complacency that are familiar to students of large-scale emergencies?
(a) Prediction.
(b) Memory.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Causality.

4. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?
(a) To categorize numbers and letters and find associations between them.
(b) To calculate difficult problems such as math equations.
(c) To grasp large concepts in relation to small concepts.
(d) To maintain and update a model for one's personal world.

5. Consider the following sentence from Chapter 19 where the author describes people who "knew well before it happened that the 2008 financial crisis was inevitable" (385). What objectionable word does the author point out in this sentence?
(a) Inevitable.
(b) Crisis.
(c) Knew.
(d) Before.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comparison does the author make between six-year-old boys and six-year-old girls in Chapter 10?

2. Who discovered a named regression to the mean?

3. The author states in Chapter 25, "Gambles represent the fact that the consequences of choices are" what (526)?

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

5. The author notes that in the event that this book were made into a film, what role would System 2 play?

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