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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity?
(a) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(b) Artifacts.
(c) Ego depletion.
(d) An anchoring effect.

2. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(d) Jackson Beatty.

3. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?
(a) Shane Frederick.
(b) Danny Oppenheimer.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Fritz Heider and Mary-Ann Simmel.

4. The author states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?
(a) The randomness of truly random events.
(b) The merits of analytical analysis.
(c) The different values of statistics.
(d) The causality of events.

5. Who coined the term "Econs and Humans"?
(a) John Gottman.
(b) Bruno Frey.
(c) Richard Thaler.
(d) Gary Klein.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the decision problems that Kahneman and Tversky examined (as discussed in Chapter 25) was whether one would choose a coin toss in which the winner wins $100 or what?

2. 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?

3. In the author's description of the cold-pressor experiment, how long did the short episode consist of?

4. What are statistical base rates?

5. The author conludes in Chapter 10 that humans pay more attention to the content of messages than to what?

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