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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 randomness of truly random events.
(c) The causality of events.
(d) The different values of statistics.

2. How is the decision construction of broad framing defined by the author?
(a) Four simple decisions, considered separately.
(b) A single decision with two options.
(c) A single decision with four options.
(d) Two simple decisions, considered separately.

3. According to the author in Chapter 26, "In bad choices, where a sure loss is compared to a larger loss that is merely probable," what is the result (552)?
(a) "Diminishing sensitivity causes risk seeking."
(b) "Loss aversion causes narrative fallacies."
(c) "Loss aversion causes extremely risk-averse choices."
(d) "Risk seeking behavior causes extremely loss aversive choices."

4. Who was the Nobel Prize-winning economist that proposed a theory where utility are attached to changes of wealth rather than to states of wealth?
(a) Bruno Frey.
(b) Harry Markowitz.
(c) John Gottman.
(d) Richard Thaler.

5. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?
(a) Samoff Mednick.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book Sources of Power?

2. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?

3. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?

4. Who introduced the labels System 1 and System 2 as systems of the mind?

5. How many bus bombings occurred in Israel between December 2001 and September 2004?

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