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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 35 - 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Extreme predictions and willingness to predict events from weak evidence are manifestations of what?
(a) System 1.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) System 2.

2. What do scientists call observations that are produced entirely by some aspect of the method of research?
(a) Axioms.
(b) Mediums.
(c) Artifacts.
(d) Heuristics.

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

4. According to the author, the dynamics of what help explain the recurrent cycles of disaster, concern, and complacency that are familiar to students of large-scale emergencies?
(a) Prediction.
(b) Causality.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Memory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are statistical base rates?

2. 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)?

3. What aspect of the mind answers the question: "Does it hurt now" (734)?

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

5. 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?

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