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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 part of the brain has a primary role as its threat center?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The occipital lobe.
(c) The brainstem.
(d) The cerebellum.

2. Where was John von Neumann originally from?
(a) Israel.
(b) Spain.
(c) France.
(d) Austria-Hungary.

3. The author states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?
(a) The merits of analytical analysis.
(b) The causality of events.
(c) The different values of statistics.
(d) The randomness of truly random events.

4. What branch of medicine deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other health factors?
(a) Psychiatry.
(b) Epidemiology.
(c) Biology.
(d) Psychology.

5. In discussing the stock market, the author states that if all the assets in a market are correctly priced, it leaves no scope for cleverness but it also does what?
(a) Protects fools from their own folly.
(b) Creates an availability cascade.
(c) Enacts executive control.
(d) Creates definitive axioms.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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. Who is the author of The Halo Effect?

4. What is System 2 in charge of in terms of behavior?

5. In the conclusion of the study of availability bias conducted by Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, and Baruch Fischoff, they deduced that estimates of causes of death are warped by what?

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