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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. The author gives an example in Chapter 10 wherein a large urn is filled with equal numbers of red and white marbles. A person takes four marbles from the urn, counts them, and returns them. The author asserts that the outcome of "two red and two white" marbles is how many times higher than the outcome of four red, or four white marbles?
(a) Six times more often.
(b) Three times more often.
(c) Two times more often.
(d) Nine times more often.

3. What is the title of the first joint article written by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky?
(a) "Introduction to the Mind and Morals."
(b) "Belief in the Law of Small Numbers."
(c) "The Perception of Causality."
(d) "Probability and Theory."

4. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?
(a) A gorilla.
(b) A naked woman.
(c) A burning car.
(d) A man with a gun.

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

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

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

8. Who was Richard Nisbett's student who assisted in conducting an experiment at the University of Michigan that the author cites in Chapter 15?
(a) Christopher Hsee.
(b) Eugene Borgida.
(c) John List.
(d) Gary Klein.

9. Who introduced the labels System 1 and System 2 as systems of the mind?
(a) Keith Stanovich and Richard West.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Nassim Taleb.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

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

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

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

13. Extreme outcomes are much more likely to be observed under what conditions?
(a) Small samples.
(b) Subjective experimentation.
(c) Large samples.
(d) Median samples.

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

15. What are statistical base rates?
(a) Facts about a population to which a case belongs.
(b) Observations about a group of people.
(c) Facts about the history of a decision.
(d) Statistics that describe maximum imput.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?

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

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

4. Who is described as the editor for the online magazine Edge that asked scientists to report their favorite equation?

5. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?

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