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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are decision weights and probabilities regarded in prospect theory?
(a) Weights are more important.
(b) The same.
(c) Variations of probability have less effect on decision weights.
(d) Probabilities are more important.

2. What are the subjects in the gorilla study instructed to count in the short film?
(a) Scores on a video game.
(b) Basketball passes.
(c) Seconds while a woman runs.
(d) Baseball throws.

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

4. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which individual is described as recently completing her graduate work?
(a) Anne.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Mary.
(d) Kim.

5. What is System 2 in charge of in terms of behavior?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Self-control.
(c) Impulse.
(d) Deception.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?

2. In the presentation of the "character" of Tom W. in Chapter 14, what is the subject of the experiment asked to rate?

3. The author compares the conscious mind with what in Chapter 5?

4. The author presents a sentence describing Jane losing her wallet in New York in Chapter 6. What word stood out the most for subjects given a recall test about the sentence?

5. The author describes a phenomenon discovered by Roy Baumeister's team wherein an effort of will is tiring, and if you have to force yourself to do something, you are less able to exert self-control when the next challenge appears. What is this phenomenon named?

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