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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 term refers to an approach to problem solving that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals?
(a) Executive control.
(b) Heuristic.
(c) Causality.
(d) Illusion.

2. Who is declared by the author as the hero of the book in Chapter 1?
(a) System 1.
(b) The ego.
(c) The conscience.
(d) System 2.

3. What aspect of the mind answers the question: "How was it, on the whole" (734)?
(a) The anchoring self.
(b) The remembering self.
(c) The experiencing self.
(d) The loss-aversive self.

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

5. Who introduced the term "affective forecasting"?
(a) Christopher Hsee.
(b) Daniel Gilbert and Timothy Wilson.
(c) John List.
(d) Baruch Fischhoff.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Black Swan?

2. What term is used to describe the adoption and termination of task sets by psychologists?

3. Based on the law of least effort, the author concludes that what characteristic is built deep into our nature?

4. What term refers to the state that some artists experience in creative moments and other experience through films, books, etc.?

5. Whose experiment demonstrating a noncausal base rate when describing a group of students attending Yale?

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