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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?
(a) To categorize numbers and letters and find associations between them.
(b) To calculate difficult problems such as math equations.
(c) To maintain and update a model for one's personal world.
(d) To grasp large concepts in relation to small concepts.

4. 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) The economy.
(b) Direct knowledge.
(c) Family history of illness.
(d) Media coverage.

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

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

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

8. In the presentation of the "character" of Tom W. in Chapter 14, what is the subject of the experiment asked to rate?
(a) What job Tom has.
(b) At what age Tom gets married.
(c) How old Tom is.
(d) What Tom's major is in college.

9. 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?
(a) Max Bazerman.
(b) Christopher Hsee.
(c) Gary Klein.
(d) John List.

10. 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) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 13.
(d) 4.

11. The average effort of System 2 is repeatedly compared with what?
(a) A race.
(b) A crawl.
(c) A sprint.
(d) A stroll.

12. Whose experiment demonstrating a noncausal base rate when describing a group of students attending Yale?
(a) Icek Ajzen.
(b) Gary Klein.
(c) Christopher Hsee.
(d) John List.

13. 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?
(a) 13.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

14. What psychologist described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul in Scientific American?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(d) Eckhard Hess.

15. When did Kahneman publish Attention and Effort?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1973.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do causal base rates do?

2. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?

3. The author notes that stereotyping is a negative word in our society. How does the author apply the word in his usage?

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

5. Who was Richard Nisbett's student who assisted in conducting an experiment at the University of Michigan that the author cites in Chapter 15?

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