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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 many of the participants in Nisbett's experiment at the Univerity of Michigan never got out of their booth when the stooge pleaded for help?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 13.
(d) 2.

2. Who wrote Judgment in Managerial Decision Making?
(a) John List.
(b) Christopher Hsee.
(c) Max Bazerman.
(d) Gary Klein.

3. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?
(a) The Executive Control illusion.
(b) The Muller-Lyer illusion.
(c) The Anchoring illusion.
(d) The illusion of Narrative Fallacy.

4. What color are the cabs in the statistics problem presented by the author to examine statistical base rates and causal base rates?
(a) Red and green.
(b) Yellow and green.
(c) Blue and White.
(d) Green and blue.

5. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Shane Frederick.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the aphorisms presented by the author in Chapter 5, what aphorisms were judged to be more insightful to study participants?

2. What term refers to the quality of being noticeable or important?

3. Who was the anesthesiologist who intervened regarding physicians' and midwives' clinical judgment to determine whether a baby faced breathing distress?

4. Who is the intellectual leader of an association of scholars against the author's works who call themselves NDM's?

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?

(see the answer key)

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