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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What region of the brain is substantially more developed in humans than other primates and is involved in operations associated with intelligence?
(a) The occipital lobe.
(b) The prefrontal area.
(c) The brainstem.
(d) The cerebellum.

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

3. Who created the Cognitive Reflection Test that involves the bat-and-ball problem along with two others?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.

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

5. What German psychologists offered the most compelling demonstrations of the role of associative coherence in anchoring, according to the author?
(a) William Feller.
(b) Thomas Mussweiler and Fritz Strack.
(c) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
(d) Larry Jacoby.

6. What do scientists call observations that are produced entirely by some aspect of the method of research?
(a) Heuristics.
(b) Axioms.
(c) Artifacts.
(d) Mediums.

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

8. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Danny Oppenheimer.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.

9. What are the subjects in the gorilla study instructed to count in the short film?
(a) Basketball passes.
(b) Scores on a video game.
(c) Baseball throws.
(d) Seconds while a woman runs.

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

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

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

13. According to the author, what is determined by the coherence of the best story you can tell by the evidence at hand?
(a) Ego depletion.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Axioms.
(d) Executive control.

14. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?
(a) Shane Frederick.
(b) Danny Oppenheimer.
(c) Fritz Heider and Mary-Ann Simmel.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who discovered a named regression to the mean?

3. The author states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?

4. Cognitive strain is defined by the author as being affected by both the current level of effort and what?

5. 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?

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