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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Amos Tversky, Tom Gilovich, and Robert Vallone conducted a study of misperceptions and randomness in what sport?
(a) Football.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Tennis.

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

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

4. What term is used to describe the adoption and termination of task sets by psychologists?
(a) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(b) Active control.
(c) Executive control.
(d) Subconscious control.

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

6. 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) Christopher Hsee.
(b) John List.
(c) Max Bazerman.
(d) Gary Klein.

7. Who is the author of The Black Swan?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(d) Keith Stanovich.

8. 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) 6.
(b) 13.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

9. The author notes that in the event that this book were made into a film, what role would System 2 play?
(a) A diva and backstabber.
(b) A leading role while thinking he is a background character.
(c) A supporting character that believes he is the hero.
(d) A minor character that knows it is a minor character.

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

11. In one example provided for the reader, Kahneman instructs to draw one line, 2 1/2 inches from the bottom of a sheet of paper. On a second sheet, the subject is to draw a 2 1/5 line from the top. What are his observations regarding the lines?
(a) The line from the top will be more accurate.
(b) The line from the bottom will be more accurate.
(c) Both lines will be divergent but correct.
(d) Both lines will be equally accurate.

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

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

14. What word is used to describe when people fail to apply a logical rule that is obviously relevant?
(a) Artifact.
(b) Heuristic.
(c) Fallacy.
(d) Axiom.

15. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) Jackson Beatty.
(d) Larry Jacoby.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity?

3. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which choice is favored by intuition?

4. In the first description of the fictional Linda, Kahneman and Tversky said that she was how old?

5. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which individual is described as recently completing her graduate work?

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