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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 example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?
(a) A picture of a stream.
(b) A multiplication problem.
(c) A compound sentence.
(d) A picture of an angry woman.

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

3. 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) Illusion.
(b) Executive control.
(c) Causality.
(d) Heuristic.

4. In utility theory, the utilty of a gain is assessed by comparing what?
(a) The axioms invested in the states of wealth.
(b) The base rates of the subject.
(c) The utilities of two states of wealth.
(d) The heuristics of the subject.

5. When did Kahneman publish Attention and Effort?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1985.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the decision problems that Kahneman and Tversky examined (as discussed in Chapter 25) was whether one would choose a coin toss in which the winner wins $100 or what?

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

3. In the statistics presented by the author in the opening of Chapter 10, he states that instances of what disease are less prevalent in rural, sparsely populated counties largely in the Midwest, South, and the West?

4. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?

5. The author describes a study conducted before President Nixon visited China and Russia. When was this?

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