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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) Tennis.
(b) Football.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Soccer.

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 calculate difficult problems such as math equations.
(c) To grasp large concepts in relation to small concepts.
(d) To categorize numbers and letters and find associations between them.

3. What is described as the currency consumed by the nervous system above all others, and which serves as a currency for effortful mental activity?
(a) Vitamin B.
(b) Glucose.
(c) Testosterone.
(d) Estrogen.

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

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

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

7. The author presents a sentence describing Jane losing her wallet in New York in Chapter 6. What word stood out the most for subjects given a recall test about the sentence?
(a) Lost.
(b) City.
(c) Pickpocket.
(d) Prevalent.

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. 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) Heuristic.
(b) Illusion.
(c) Executive control.
(d) Causality.

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

15. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?
(a) The Anchoring illusion.
(b) The Executive Control illusion.
(c) The Muller-Lyer illusion.
(d) The illusion of Narrative Fallacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Extreme predictions and willingness to predict events from weak evidence are manifestations of what?

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

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

4. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?

5. When did the Yom Kippur War break out?

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