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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did Abert Michotte write in 1945?
(a) The Moses Illusion.
(b) Introduction to Cognitive Pupillometry.
(c) The Perception of Causality.
(d) Introduction to the Mind and Morals.

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

3. Who wrote The Invisible Gorilla?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

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

5. What is a reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods?
(a) Standing boldly with arms crossed.
(b) Looking to the left.
(c) Frequent repetition.
(d) Nodding.

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

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

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

9. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?
(a) Recognition.
(b) Articluation.
(c) Depletion.
(d) Incongruity.

10. 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 bold print.
(b) The statement in italics.
(c) The statement in wide-set print.
(d) The statement in small print.

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

12. The author provides an excerpt related to "norm theory" that comes from an essay he had written with what psychologist?
(a) Shane Frederick.
(b) Dale Miller.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

13. What do causal base rates do?
(a) They solidify one's view of the overall perspective of a case.
(b) They create axioms.
(c) They create ego depletion.
(d) They change one's view of how the individual case came to be.

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

15. What branch of medicine deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other health factors?
(a) Epidemiology.
(b) Biology.
(c) Psychiatry.
(d) Psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?

2. What do we lose touch with when we are uncomfortable or unhappy?

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

4. 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?

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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