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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30 - 34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to the study of pupils in relation to the mind?
(a) The Muller-Lyer illusion.
(b) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(c) The availability cascade.
(d) Ego depletion.

2. What are statistical base rates?
(a) Observations about a group of people.
(b) Facts about the history of a decision.
(c) Statistics that describe maximum imput.
(d) Facts about a population to which a case belongs.

3. To whom is the following quote attributed: "The agent of economic theory is rational, selfish, and his tastes do not change" (525)?
(a) Richard Thaler.
(b) Bruno Frey.
(c) Gary Klein.
(d) John Gottman.

4. In the presentation of the "character" of Tom W. in Chapter 14, what is the subject of the experiment asked to rate?
(a) How old Tom is.
(b) What job Tom has.
(c) What Tom's major is in college.
(d) At what age Tom gets married.

5. Where was Albert Michotte from?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Norway.
(c) France.
(d) Sweden.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What statistician illustrated the ease with which people see patterns where none exist?

3. Who wrote that "chances of rare events (such as the burst of housing bubbles) receive less impact than they deserve according to their objective probabilities" (639)?

4. What region of the brain is substantially more developed in humans than other primates and is involved in operations associated with intelligence?

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

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