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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author asserts that conflict between an automatic reaction and what is common in our lives?
(a) The intention to control it.
(b) The intention to follow that reaction.
(c) The intention to analyze the reaction.
(d) The intention to accept the reaction.

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

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

4. What is System 2 in charge of in terms of behavior?
(a) Deception.
(b) Self-control.
(c) Impulse.
(d) Emotion.

5. What example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?
(a) A picture of a stream.
(b) A picture of an angry woman.
(c) A compound sentence.
(d) A multiplication problem.

6. What did the fictional Linda major in?
(a) Biology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) History.
(d) Economics.

7. Whom from the University of Chicago asked people to price sets of dinnerware in order to examine joint evaluation?
(a) John List.
(b) Gary Klein.
(c) Christopher Hese.
(d) Max Bazerman.

8. When the author demonstrates enlisting cognitive ease when writing, he gives two statements about Adolf Hitler. Which of these statements APPEARED to be the most legitimate?
(a) The statement in italics.
(b) The statement in small print.
(c) The statement in bold print.
(d) The statement in wide-set print.

9. 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) Causality.
(c) Heuristic.
(d) Illusion.

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

11. Based on the law of least effort, the author concludes that what characteristic is built deep into our nature?
(a) Bitterness.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Heroism.
(d) Laziness.

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

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

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

15. The author notes that stereotyping is a negative word in our society. How does the author apply the word in his usage?
(a) Positive.
(b) Caustic.
(c) Neutral.
(d) Tragic.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author conludes in Chapter 10 that humans pay more attention to the content of messages than to what?

2. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?

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

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

5. What is a reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods?

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