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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Yom Kippur War break out?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1965.

2. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?
(a) Entertain and enlighten.
(b) Satisfy the need for coherence.
(c) Inform of facts.
(d) Garnish attention from actual news.

3. What German psychologists offered the most compelling demonstrations of the role of associative coherence in anchoring, according to the author?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) William Feller.
(c) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
(d) Thomas Mussweiler and Fritz Strack.

4. From what college did Kahneman and Tversky derive their subjects for their wheel of fortune study?
(a) The University of Las Vegas.
(b) Berkeley University.
(c) The University of Oregon.
(d) Yale University.

5. What term did Sunstein and Kuran invent for the mechanism through which biases flow into policy?
(a) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(b) The availability cascade.
(c) The Moses Illusion.
(d) An anchoring effect.

6. What statistician illustrated the ease with which people see patterns where none exist?
(a) William Feller.
(b) Eckhard Hess.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Christopher Chabris.

7. What branch of medicine deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other health factors?
(a) Psychiatry.
(b) Epidemiology.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Biology.

8. What comparison does the author make between six-year-old boys and six-year-old girls in Chapter 10?
(a) Their kind behavior.
(b) Their average vocabulary.
(c) Their skills at geometry.
(d) Their mathematical skills.

9. What book did Abert Michotte write in 1945?
(a) Introduction to Cognitive Pupillometry.
(b) Introduction to the Mind and Morals.
(c) The Moses Illusion.
(d) The Perception of Causality.

10. The author compares the conscious mind with what in Chapter 5?
(a) A cemetery.
(b) A cockpit.
(c) A ship's mast.
(d) A ship's hull.

11. In conducting their wheel of fortune study, Kahneman and Tversky set their wheel to only stop on what numbers?
(a) 10 or 65.
(b) 4 or 89.
(c) 13 or 16.
(d) 12 or 98.

12. What color are the cabs in the statistics problem presented by the author to examine statistical base rates and causal base rates?
(a) Blue and White.
(b) Green and blue.
(c) Red and green.
(d) Yellow and green.

13. What is a reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods?
(a) Looking to the left.
(b) Standing boldly with arms crossed.
(c) Nodding.
(d) Frequent repetition.

14. Cognitive strain is defined by the author as being affected by both the current level of effort and what?
(a) Levels of intelligence.
(b) The probability of future expectations.
(c) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(d) The presence of unmet demands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word is used to describe when people fail to apply a logical rule that is obviously relevant?

2. What experimental economist conducted an experiment by auctioning sets of ten high-value cards, and identical sets to which three cards of modest value were added?

3. What are statistical base rates?

4. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?

5. Where did Kahneman and Tversky present their Linda study to doctoral students in the decision-science program?

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