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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Amos Tversky, Tom Gilovich, and Robert Vallone conducted a study of misperceptions and randomness in what sport?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Football.

3. What image is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate in the reader thinking in automatic mode?
(a) A smiling man.
(b) A smiling woman.
(c) An angry woman.
(d) A beach.

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

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

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

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) City.
(b) Lost.
(c) Pickpocket.
(d) Prevalent.

8. The author notes that stereotyping is a negative word in our society. How does the author apply the word in his usage?
(a) Tragic.
(b) Positive.
(c) Caustic.
(d) Neutral.

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

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

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

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

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

14. Cognitive strain is defined by the author as being affected by both the current level of effort and what?
(a) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(b) The probability of future expectations.
(c) The presence of unmet demands.
(d) Levels of intelligence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, the dynamics of what help explain the recurrent cycles of disaster, concern, and complacency that are familiar to students of large-scale emergencies?

2. What is described as the currency consumed by the nervous system above all others, and which serves as a currency for effortful mental activity?

3. Who is the author of The Black Swan?

4. Who created a study article called "Becoming Famous Overnight"?

5. What is System 2 in charge of in terms of behavior?

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