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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. In the experiment conducted at the University of Michigan by Richard Nisbett, how many of the 15 participants responded immediately to the stooge's plea for help?
(a) 13.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

3. 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.

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

5. In the conclusion of the study of availability bias conducted by Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, and Baruch Fischoff, they deduced that estimates of causes of death are warped by what?
(a) Media coverage.
(b) Family history of illness.
(c) The economy.
(d) Direct knowledge.

6. The author presents a sentence describing Jane losing her wallet in New York in Chapter 6. What word stood out the most for subjects given a recall test about the sentence?
(a) City.
(b) Pickpocket.
(c) Prevalent.
(d) Lost.

7. Who created a study article called "Becoming Famous Overnight"?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Jackson Beatty.
(c) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(d) Eckhard Hess.

8. The author asserts in Chapter 1 that anything that occupies your working memory reduces what?
(a) Your emotional reactions.
(b) Your ability to think.
(c) The availability cascade.
(d) Anchoring effects.

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

10. Where was Albert Michotte from?
(a) Norway.
(b) France.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Sweden.

11. What do causal base rates do?
(a) They change one's view of how the individual case came to be.
(b) They solidify one's view of the overall perspective of a case.
(c) They create ego depletion.
(d) They create axioms.

12. Who wrote the book Sources of Power?
(a) John List.
(b) Christopher Hsee.
(c) Gary Klein.
(d) Max Bazerman.

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

14. 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) Causality.
(b) Illusion.
(c) Executive control.
(d) Heuristic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?

2. Who discovered a named regression to the mean?

3. According to the author, what is determined by the coherence of the best story you can tell by the evidence at hand?

4. What psychologist described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul in Scientific American?

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

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