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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 are statistical base rates?
(a) Facts about a population to which a case belongs.
(b) Facts about the history of a decision.
(c) Statistics that describe maximum imput.
(d) Observations about a group of people.

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

3. The author provides an excerpt related to "norm theory" that comes from an essay he had written with what psychologist?
(a) Dale Miller.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Danny Oppenheimer.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.

4. The author conludes in Chapter 10 that humans pay more attention to the content of messages than to what?
(a) Information about their reliability.
(b) Their causality.
(c) Information about their connection with self.
(d) The statistics behind them.

5. According to the author, what is determined by the coherence of the best story you can tell by the evidence at hand?
(a) Ego depletion.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Axioms.
(d) Executive control.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cognitive strain is defined by the author as being affected by both the current level of effort and what?

2. What are the subjects in the gorilla study instructed to count in the short film?

3. How are decision weights and probabilities regarded in prospect theory?

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

5. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?

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