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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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) Nine times more often.
(c) Three times more often.
(d) Two times more often.

4. The author compares the conscious mind with what in Chapter 5?
(a) A ship's mast.
(b) A cockpit.
(c) A ship's hull.
(d) A cemetery.

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

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

7. In conducting their wheel of fortune study, Kahneman and Tversky set their wheel to only stop on what numbers?
(a) 13 or 16.
(b) 10 or 65.
(c) 4 or 89.
(d) 12 or 98.

8. What term refers to the study of pupils in relation to the mind?
(a) Ego depletion.
(b) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(c) The availability cascade.
(d) The Muller-Lyer illusion.

9. What do we lose touch with when we are uncomfortable or unhappy?
(a) Articulation.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Recognition.

10. Who coined the term "mere exposure effect"?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Robert Zajonc.

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

12. 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.

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

14. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?
(a) They are fast.
(b) They require attention.
(c) They are heuristic.
(d) They are automatic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?

3. In the statistics presented by the author in the opening of Chapter 10, he states that instances of what disease are less prevalent in rural, sparsely populated counties largely in the Midwest, South, and the West?

4. Extreme outcomes are much more likely to be observed under what conditions?

5. The author provides an excerpt related to "norm theory" that comes from an essay he had written with what psychologist?

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