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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the acronym WYSIATI stand for?
(a) What you satisfy is all there is.
(b) What you see is all there is.
(c) What you supply is all there is.
(d) What you seek is all there is.

4. What happened to bond prices on the day of Saddam Hussein's capture in Iraq?
(a) The drastically dropped.
(b) They initially rose.
(c) They initially dropped.
(d) They stayed the same.

5. Where did Kahneman and Tversky present their Linda study to doctoral students in the decision-science program?
(a) New York University School of Business.
(b) Harvard University School of Business.
(c) Stanford Graduate School of Business.
(d) Princeton University School of Business.

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

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

8. What does the author suggest when quoting sources in persuasive writing?
(a) Using sources that are celebrities.
(b) Using sources that can easily be verified.
(c) Using names that are easy to pronounce.
(d) Using sources that are from other countries.

9. 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.

10. What is System 2 in charge of in terms of behavior?
(a) Impulse.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Deception.
(d) Self-control.

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

12. Who introduced the word "flow" to describe the state of effortless attending?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) William Feller.
(d) Larry Jacoby.

13. According to the author, people who are what are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations?
(a) Cognitively busy.
(b) Considery axioms.
(c) Emotionally active.
(d) Following fallacies.

14. From what college did Kahneman and Tversky derive their subjects for their wheel of fortune study?
(a) The University of Las Vegas.
(b) Yale University.
(c) The University of Oregon.
(d) Berkeley University.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Amos Tversky, Tom Gilovich, and Robert Vallone conducted a study of misperceptions and randomness in what sport?

3. 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?

4. What image is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate in the reader thinking in automatic mode?

5. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?

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